Mantua
English edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (city in Italy): IPA(key): /ˈmæn.t(j)u.ə/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (village in Ohio): IPA(key): /ˈmæn.ə.weɪ/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Proper noun edit
Mantua
- Province of Lombardy, Italy.
- City and capital of Mantua.
- c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
- He and I / Will watch thy waking, and that very night / Shall Romeo bear thee hence to Mantua.
- A town in Pinar del Río, Cuba.
- A village in Ohio.
Translations edit
province
city
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Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Etruscan *𐌌𐌀𐌍𐌈𐌅𐌀 (*manθva), from 𐌌𐌀𐌍𐌈 (manθ, “Mantus, god of the underworld”). Compare 𐌌𐌀𐌍𐌈𐌅𐌀𐌕𐌄 (manθvate, “Mantuan”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈman.tu.a/, [ˈmän̪t̪uä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈman.tu.a/, [ˈmän̪t̪uä]
Proper noun edit
Mantua f sg (genitive Mantuae); first declension
- Mantua (city)
Declension edit
First-declension noun, singular only.
Case | Singular |
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Nominative | Mantua |
Genitive | Mantuae |
Dative | Mantuae |
Accusative | Mantuam |
Ablative | Mantuā |
Vocative | Mantua |
Descendants edit
References edit
- “Mantua”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Mantua in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Mantua ?
- A town in Pinar del Río, Cuba