Corinthius sinus

Latin

Proper noun

Corinthius sinus m sg (variously declined, genitive Corinthiī sinūs or Corinthī sinūs); second declension, fourth declension

1. the Gulf of Corinth

   Synonym: Corinthiacus sinus

   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 44.1.4:

     […] praetor superato Leucata Corinthium sinum invectus […]

     • 1951 translation by Alfred C. Schlesinger

       […] the praetor rounded Cape Leucas, entered the Gulf of Corinth […]

Declension

Second-declension noun with a fourth-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Corinthius sinus
genitive	Corinthiī sinūs Corinthī sinūs1
dative	Corinthiō sinuī
accusative	Corinthium sinum
ablative	Corinthiō sinū
vocative	Corinthī sinus
locative	Corinthiī sinū

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Further reading

• “Corinthus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Corinthus”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011