Corinthus

Latin

Alternative forms

• Corinthos

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Κόρινθος (Kórinthos).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔˈrɪn.tʰʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [koˈrin̪.t̪us]

Proper noun

Corinthus f sg (genitive Corinthī); second declension

1. Corinth

Declension

Second-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Corinthus
genitive	Corinthī
dative	Corinthō
accusative	Corinthum
ablative	Corinthō
vocative	Corinthe
locative	Corinthī

Derived terms

• Corinthiacus
• Corinthiārius
• Corinthiēnsis
• Corinthius

Descendants

• Catalan: Corint
• English: Corinth
• French: Corinthe
• Galician: Corinto
• Italian: Corinto
• Portuguese: Corinto
• Romanian: Corint
• Spanish: Corinto

Further reading

• “Corinthus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Corinthus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Corinthus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Corinthus, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “Corinthus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Corinth”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press
• “Corinthus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly