Carthago
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch carthago, from Latin Carthāgō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌkɑrˈtaː.ɣoː/
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: Car‧tha‧go
Proper noun
Carthago n
Derived terms
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed 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 Carchēdōn and Carthada.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [karˈtʰaː.ɡoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [karˈt̪aː.ɡo]
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.
| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | Carthāgō |
| genitive | Carthāginis |
| dative | Carthāginī |
| accusative | Carthāginem |
| ablative | Carthāgine |
| vocative | Carthāgō |
| locative | Carthāgine Carthāginī |
Derived terms
- Carthāginēnsis
- Carthāginiēnsis
- Carthago delenda est
- Carthago Nova
Descendants
- → Dutch: Carthago
- → English: Carthage
- → French: Carthage
- → German: Karthago
- → Italian: Cartagine
- → Portuguese: Cartago
- → Romanian: Cartagina
- → Spanish: Cartago
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 [Logeion] 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.