Latin

Alternative forms

• cumba

Noun

cymba f ‎(genitive cymbae); first declension

1. (nautical) skiff (especially the small boat used by Charon to ferry the dead)

Inflection

First declension.

Descendants

• Portuguese: comba

References

• cymba in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cymba in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “cymba”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• cymba in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cymba in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin