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Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch carthago, from Latin Carthāgō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌkɑrˈtaː.ɣoː/
- Hyphenation: Car‧tha‧go
Proper noun
Carthago n
- Carthage
Derived terms
Latin
Etymology
From Phoenician 𐤒𐤓𐤕-𐤇𐤃𐤔𐤕 (qrt-ḥdšt), possibly via Etruscan *𐌂𐌀𐌓𐌈𐌀𐌆𐌀 (*carθaza), from 𐤒𐤓𐤕 (qrt, “city”) + 𐤇𐤃𐤔𐤕 (ḥdšt, “new”) as opposed to the colonists' mother city of Tyre. Compare Hebrew קֶרֶת (qeret, “city”), קִרְיָה (kiryah), חָדָשׁ (ḥāḏāš, “new”), Aramaic קַרְתָּא (qartā, “city”), חֲדַתָּא (ḥəḏattā, “new”), Arabic قَرْيَة (qarya, “village”), and Arabic حَدِيث (ḥadīṯ, “new”). Doublet of Carthago Nova, Carchēdōn, and Carthada.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Carthāgō f sg (genitive Carthāginis); third declension
- (historical) Carthage (an ancient city-state and former empire centered on modern Tunisia)
- (chiefly historical) Synonym of Carthagenna, Cartagena (a city in Spain)
Declension
Third-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “Carthago”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Carthago in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “Carthago”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “Carthago”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “Carthage”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press
- “Carthago”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
Portuguese
Proper noun
Carthago f
- Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of Cartago.