Karthago

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See also: Kartago, Kartágo, and Karþagó

German

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kaʁˈtaːɡoː/
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Proper noun

Karthago n (proper noun, genitive Karthagos or (optionally with an article) Karthago)

  1. Carthage (an ancient city in North Africa, in modern Tunisia)
  2. Carthage (an ancient civilisation in North Africa, centred on the city of Carthage)

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Phoenician 𐤒𐤓𐤕-𐤇𐤃𐤔𐤕 (qrt-ḥdšt, “New City”).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Karthāgō f sg (genitive Karthāginis); third declension

  1. (Classical Latin) Alternative spelling of Carthāgō
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.12–14:
      Urbs antīqua fuit (Tyriī tenuēre colōnī):
      Karthāgō, Ītaliam contrā Tiberīnaque longē
      ōstia, dīves opum studiīsque asperrima bellī.
      There was an ancient city (Tyrian colonists held ):
      Carthage, opposite Italy and far from the Tiber River’s
      mouth, rich in wealth and ruthless in the pursuits of war.
      (Note that this use of “tenuere” is a syncopated or abbreviated form of the verb “tenuerunt.” See: Carthage; Tyre, Lebanon.)

Declension

Third-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Karthāgō
Genitive Karthāginis
Dative Karthāginī
Accusative Karthāginem
Ablative Karthāgine
Vocative Karthāgō
Locative Karthāginī
Karthāgine

References

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

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Proper noun

Karthago n (genitive Karthagos)

  1. Carthage (an ancient city in North Africa, in modern Tunisia)
  2. Carthage (an ancient civilisation in North Africa, centred on the city of Carthage)

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