Meaning of corbita | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A two-masted merchant ship of Ancient Rome.
   historical
2. A commune of Vrancea County, Romania.
3. A village in Corbița, Vrancea County, Romania.

Examples

“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.”

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