What does corbīta mean in Latin?

corbīta, a noun, means “a slow-sailing freight ship”.

What is the genitive of corbīta?

The genitive singular is corbītae. corbīta is feminine, first declension.

In classical Latin, [kɔrˈbiː.ta]; in ecclesiastical (church) Latin, [korˈbiː.ta].

noun · femininefirst declension

corbīta f (genitive corbītae)

Classical[kɔrˈbiː.ta]Ecclesiastical[korˈbiː.ta]

a slow-sailing freight ship
[Agorastocles] Ita me di ament, tardo amico nihil est quicquam inaequius, praesertim homini amanti, qui quidquid agit properat omnia. Sicut ego hos duco advocatos, homines spissigradissimos,May gods so love me, nothing is more unfair than having a slothful friend, even more so for a man in love, who in doing anything must all expedite. So I lead them, having called them forth, the most slow-paced men of them all, slower than freight ships [corbitae] upon a quiet sea.c. 194 BCE, Plautus, Poenulus 3.1.1–4
Sed putabam, cum Regium venissem, fore ut illic ‘δολιχὸν πλόον ὁρμαίνοντες’ cogitaremus, corbitane Patras an actuariolis ad Leucopetras Tarentinorum atque inde Corcyram et, si oneraria, statimne freto an Syracusis. Hac super re scribam ad te Regio.68 BCE – 44 BCE, Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum XVI.vi

Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.

corbīta ae, f

corbis, a ship of burden.

Ellipsis of corbīta nāvis, from *corbītus, from corbis + -ītus.

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