Corinna

Translingual

Various sac spiders and jumping spiders. No. 8 (top right) is Corinna capito.

Etymology

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Proper noun

Corinna f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family  – certain corinnid sac spiders.

Hyponyms

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References

• Corinnid sac spider on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Corinna on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Corinna on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

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English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek, probably from κόρη (kórē, “girl, maid, daughter”); compare kore.

Proper noun

Corinna

1. (historical) An ancient Greek poetess.
   • 1816, Pindar, article in Encyclopaedia Perthensis, Volume 17, 2nd Edition, page 559,

     During this period he became acquainted with the poetess Corinna, who was likewiſe a ſtudent under Myrtis, and, Pauſanias ſays, was one of the moſt beautiful women of her time.

   • 1999, David Mulroy (editor), Early Greek Lyric Poetry, page 167,

     The most renowned poetess of ancient Greece, after Sappho, was Corinna, who came from a town in Boeotia named Tanagra.

   • 2005, David H. J. Larmour, 2: Corinna's Poetic Metis and the Epinikian Tradition, Ellen Greene (editor), Women Poets in Ancient Greece and Rome, page 25,

     […] it may not be going too far, in other words, to characterize Corinna's poetry as significantly "woman-identified," to use Rayor's term.

2. A female given name from Ancient Greek.
   • 1601, Thomas Campion, When to Her Lute Corinna Sings, A Book of Ayres, 2006, Jay Parini (editor), The Wadsworth Anthology of Poetry, page 614,

     When to her lute Corinna sings, / Her voice revives the leaden strings,

Related terms

• Cora
• Corina
• Corinne

Translations

female given name

• French: Corinne (fr)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: Corinna

Anagrams

• Cronian, Norican

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German

Alternative forms

• Corina

Proper noun

Corinna

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Corinna.