Carthago

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• IPA^(key): /ˌkɑrˈtaː.ɣoː/

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• Hyphenation: Car‧tha‧go

Carthago n

1. Carthage

• Carthaags
• Carthager

• Kartāgō
• Karthāgō

Ultimately from Phoenician 𐤒𐤓𐤕-𐤇𐤃𐤔𐤕‎ (qrt-ḥdšt, “new city”), maybe via Etruscan *𐌂𐌀𐌓𐌈𐌀𐌆𐌀 (*carθaza). Compare Hebrew קֶרֶת‎ (qeret, “city”) (also: Hebrew קִרְיָה‎ (kyriah)) and חָדָשׁ‎ (ḥāḏāš, “new”), Aramaic קַרְתָּא‎ (qartā, “city”) and חֲדַתָּא‎ (ḥəḏattā, “new”), Arabic قَرْيَة‎ (qarya, “village”) and Arabic حَدِيث‎ (ḥadīṯ, “new”). Doublet of Carchēdōn and Carthada.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /karˈtʰaː.ɡoː/, [kärˈt̪ʰäːɡoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /karˈta.ɡo/, [kärˈt̪äːɡo]

Carthāgō f sg (genitive Carthāginis); third declension

1. Carthage (an ancient city-state and former empire centered on modern Tunisia)

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• Carthāginiēnsis

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• → English: Carthage
• → French: Carthage
• → German: Karthago
• → Italian: Cartagine
• → Portuguese: Cartago
• → Romanian: Cartagina
• → Spanish: Cartago

• “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 f

1. Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1911) of Cartago.