Gades

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See also: gades and Gadès

Latin

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Etymology

Borrowed from Phoenician 𐤂𐤃𐤓 (gdr /⁠gādēr, gādīr⁠/, a walled enclosure); compare Ancient Greek Γᾱ́δειρα n pl (Gā́deira).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Gādēs f pl (genitive Gādium); third declension

  1. modern Cádiz, originally a Phoenician colony in Hispania Baetica on an island of the same name
  2. (figurative) an end or limit (from its location at the south-western extremity of Spain, on the edge of the Old world)
    • Horace, quoted in Dictionary of Latin quotations, proverbs, maxims and mottos, classical and medieval, including law terms and phrases : with a selection of Greek quotations (1866)
      "You may possess a more extensive dominion by con- trolling a craving disposition, than if you could unite Libya to the distant Gades, and the natives of either Carthage were subject to you alone."
    • Silius Italicus, Punica With An English Translation By James Duff:
      "So Hamilcar left his design of war concealed in his secret heart, and made for Calpe and Gades, the limit of the world; but, while carrying the standards of Africa to the Pillars of Hercules, he fell in a hard-fought battle."
    • Juvenal, quoted in Dictionary of Latin quotations, proverbs, maxims and mottos, classical and medieval, including law terms and phrases : with a selection of Greek quotations (1866)
      "In all the lands which lie from Gades even to the land of the morn and the Ganges, few are able to re-move the clouds of prejudice, and to discern those things which are really for their good, and those which are directly the contrary."

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem), with locative, plural only.

plural
nominative Gādēs
genitive Gādium
dative Gādibus
accusative Gādēs
Gādīs
ablative Gādibus
vocative Gādēs
locative Gādibus

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  • Gades”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Gades in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.