corbis

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈkor.bis]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈkoɾ.bis]

Verb

corbis

1. second-person singular present subjunctive of corbar

Latin

Etymology

Unknown. Some refer it to Latin curvus, others to Ancient Greek κόλπος (kólpos) or from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kerbʰ- (“to turn (around), wind”) (cognate with scirpus); it could be also a Semitic borrowing, comparing Ge'ez ከረቦ (käräbo, “basket”), Amharic ከረቦ (käräbo, “basket”), considering the variant Ge'ez ከበሮ (käbäro, “basket”) possibly related to Ge'ez ከፈር (käfär, “basket”), Tigrinya ከፈር (käfär, “basket”), Arabic قَفِير (qafīr, “basket”). Alternatively, possibly borrowed from early Proto-West Germanic *korb, from Proto-Germanic *kurbaz, from earlier *krebô (“basket”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- (“bundle”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔr.bɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔr.bis]

Noun

corbis m or f (genitive corbis); third declension

1. basket; basketful
   • circa 102, Juvenal, Satires 11.65–74:

     De Tiburtino veniet agro haedulus, qui plus lactis habet quam sanguinis, et montani asparagi. grandia ova adsunt ipsis cum matribus, et uvae servatae parte anni quales fuerant in vitibus, Syriumque pirum, de corbibus et odoris mala recentis.

     From my farm at Tiburtinum comes a baby goat, whose veins hold more milk than blood; mountain asparagus, big eggs, and the mothers that laid them, as well as grapes, preserved for six months, but still as fresh as when they were gathered; baskets of Syrian pears and fresh, sweet-smelling apples.

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem, accusative singular in -em or -im, ablative singular in -e or -ī).

	singular	plural
nominative	corbis	corbēs
genitive	corbis	corbium
dative	corbī	corbibus
accusative	corbem corbim	corbēs corbīs
ablative	corbe corbī	corbibus
vocative	corbis	corbēs

Derived terms

• corbīta
• corbula

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: corba, ⇒ corbello
• Borrowings:
  • →? Proto-West Germanic: *korb (see there for further descendants)

Through Late Latin diminutive corbicula:

• Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: corbeil, corbeille
    • French: corbeille
    • → English: corbeil, corbeille
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Portuguese: corbelha
• Borrowings:
  • → English: corbicula

References

• “corbis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “corbis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "corbis", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “corbis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “corbis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “corbis”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “corbis”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin