Karthago

See also: Kartago, Kartágo, and Karþagó

German

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)

Related terms

• karthagisch
• Karthager

Latin

Alternative forms

• Kartāgō

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

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 [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.)

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.

Swedish

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)

Derived terms

• kartagisk