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corbita

corbita noun: a two-masted merchant ship of Ancient Rome.

Noun

corbita (plural corbita or corbitas)

  1. (historical) A two-masted merchant ship of Ancient Rome.
    • The corbita was heading directly back to Chalcedon, on the Asian side of the Straits.1998, Eric Flint, David Drake, In the Heart of Darkness
    • The reverse depicts a Roman corbita of the third century CE against the background of a map of the Mediterranean Sea from Tunisia and Sicily in the west to the eastern end of that sea and two lions in the foreground.2007, Yossi Dotan, Watercraft on World Coins: Europe, 1800-2005, page 51

Forms of corbita

pluralcorbita
pluralcorbitas

Origin of corbita

Borrowed from Latin corbita (“sailing freight ship”).

Questions about corbita

What does corbita mean?
Corbita means a two-masted merchant ship of Ancient Rome.
What part of speech is corbita?
Corbita is a noun.
What is the plural of corbita?
The plural of corbita is corbita.

Words near corbita in the dictionary

  1. Corbii Mari
  2. Corbin
  3. corbina
  4. corbinas
  5. Corbit
  6. corbita
  7. corbitas
  8. Corbits
  9. Corbitt
  10. Corbitts
  11. Corbița

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