What does corbita mean?
Corbita means (historical, nautical) A two-masted merchant ship of Ancient Rome..
Looking up this word…
Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(historical, nautical) A two-masted merchant ship of Ancient Rome..
The corbita was heading directly back to Chalcedon, on the Asian side of the Straits.
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.
Two corbitas have arrived at the shipwright in Pompeii, back from Persia; on board are the fine silks and spices that I ordered.
Use corbita when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Corbita means (historical, nautical) A two-masted merchant ship of Ancient Rome..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The corbita was heading directly back to Chalcedon, on the Asian side of the Straits.
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.