GULF Copy link • GULFA bay, sinus maris or maritimus; from the context sinus only. A whirlpool, vortex. Abyss, vorago: gurges: profundum, with or without maris [SYN. in ABYSS]: ☞ barathrum is to be avoided in prose, since only Vitr. [10, 6 (22), 11] uses it, in speaking of a pit dug by the hands of men). In the midst of the forum there appeared a yawning gulf, forum medium specu vasto collapsum est in immensam altitudinem.