FromCorinthus +-ius.
Corinthius (feminineCorinthia,neuterCorinthium);first/second-declension adjective
- ofCorinth,Corinthian
63BCE,
Cicero,
De lege agraria1.2.5:
- […] deinde agrum optimum et fructuosissimumCorinthium qui L. Mummi imperio ac felicitate ad vectigalia populi Romani adiunctus est, […]
- 1856 translation byCharles Duke Yonge
- After that, that most excellent and productive land whichbelongs Corinth, which was added to the revenues of the Roman people by the campaigns and successes of Lucius Mummius.
27BCE – 25BCE,
Titus Livius,
Ab Urbe Condita44.1.4:
- […] praetor superato LeucataCorinthium sinum invectus […]
- 1951 translation by Alfred C. Schlesinger
- […] the praetor rounded Cape Leucas, entered the Gulfof Corinth […]
c. 15BCE,
Vitruvius,
De architectura4.1:
- Columnaecorinthiae praeter capitula omnes symmetrias habent uti ionicae, […]
- 1826 translation byJoseph Gwilt
- TheCorinthian Column is, except in its capital, of the same proportion as the Ionic:
First/second-declension adjective.
Corinthius m sg (genitiveCorinthiīorCorinthī);second declension
- aCorinthian (person)
c. 77CE – 79CE,
Pliny the Elder,
Naturalis Historia7.LVII.198:
- […] figlinas Coroebus Atheniensis, in iis orbem Anarcharsis Scythes, ut alii, HyperbiusCorinthius.
- 1855–1857 translation byJohn Bostock andH. T. Riley
- Choræbus, the Athenian, was the first who made earthen vessels; but Anacharsis, the Scthian, or, according to others, Hyperbius, theCorinthian, first invented the potter's wheel.
Second-declension noun, singular only.
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
- Corinthius inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “Corinthus”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Corinthius”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Corinthus, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese),University of Chicago, since 2011