litus, litoris, n., seashore. Aeneid 1.3: Troiae qui primus ab oris Italiam fato profugus Laviniaque venit litora." Who first, an exile by fate, came from the shores of Troy to Italy and the Lavinian shores."
Eng. littoral: relating to a seashore.
Charles Robert Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle, ch. 13:
"Having run up the coast, we anchored near the northern end of the Chonos Archipelago, in Low’s Harbour, where we remained a week. The islands were here, as in Chiloe, composed of a stratified, soft, littoral deposit; and the vegetation in consequence was beautifully luxuriant. The woods came down to the sea-beach, just in the manner of an evergreen shrubbery over a gravel walk."
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