Corinthius

From Corinthus +‎ -ius.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /koˈrin.tʰi.us/, [kɔˈrɪn̪t̪ʰiʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /koˈrin.ti.us/, [koˈrin̪t̪ius]

Corinthius (feminine Corinthia, neuter Corinthium); first/second-declension adjective

1. of Corinth, Corinthian
   • 63 BCE, Cicero, De lege agraria 1.2.5:

     […] deinde agrum optimum et fructuosissimum Corinthium qui L. Mummi imperio ac felicitate ad vectigalia populi Romani adiunctus est, […]

     • 1856 translation by Charles Duke Yonge

       After that, that most excellent and productive land which belongs Corinth, which was added to the revenues of the Roman people by the campaigns and successes of Lucius Mummius.

   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, From the Founding of the City 44.1.4:

     […] praetor superato Leucata Corinthium sinum invectus […]

     • 1951 translation by Alfred C. Schlesinger

       […] the praetor rounded Cape Leucas, entered the Gulf of Corinth […]

   • c. 15 BCE, Vitruvius, De architectura 4.1:

     Columnae corinthiae praeter capitula omnes symmetrias habent uti ionicae, […]

     • 1826 translation by Joseph Gwilt

       The Corinthian Column is, except in its capital, of the same proportion as the Ionic:

First/second-declension adjective.

• Corinthiacus, Corinthiēnsis

Corinthius m sg (genitive Corinthiī or Corinthī); second declension

1. a Corinthian (person)
   • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 7.LVII.198:

     […] figlinas Coroebus Atheniensis, in iis orbem Anarcharsis Scythes, ut alii, Hyperbius Corinthius.

     • 1855–1857 translation by John Bostock and H. T. Riley

       Choræbus, the Athenian, was the first who made earthen vessels; but Anacharsis, the Scthian, or, according to others, Hyperbius, the Corinthian, first invented the potter's wheel.

Second-declension noun, singular only.

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• Corinthius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “Corinthius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Corinthus - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.