Karthago

• IPA^(key): /kaʁˈtaːɡoː/

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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)

• karthagisch
• Karthager

• Kartāgō

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

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

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 [it]):
     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.)

Third-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• “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.

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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