Carinae

Carinae

1. (astronomy) genitive of Carina used when naming stars, such as α Carinae.

From carīna (“keel”); according to Servius (In Vergilii Aeneidem Commentarii. VIII. 361), from the shape of buildings near the temple of Tellus located here.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kaˈriː.nae̯]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kaˈriː.ne]

Carīnae f pl (genitive Carīnārum); first declension

1. a Roman district situated at the western end of the southern spur of the Esquiline Hill, likely conflated with the Fāgūtal

First-declension noun, plural only.

• Esquilīnus mons
• Fāgūtal
• Oppius mons

• Carinae in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Carinae”, in Samuel Ball Platner (1929) Thomas Ashby, editor, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press