Mantua
English
editEtymology
editPronunciation
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
editMantua
- 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
editprovince
city
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Anagrams
editLatin
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Etruscan *𐌌𐌀𐌍𐌈𐌅𐌀 (*manθva), from 𐌌𐌀𐌍𐌈 (manθ, “Mantus, god of the underworld”). Compare 𐌌𐌀𐌍𐌈𐌅𐌀𐌕𐌄 (manθvate, “Mantuan”).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈman.tu.a/, [ˈmän̪t̪uä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈman.tu.a/, [ˈmän̪t̪uä]
Proper noun
editMantua f sg (genitive Mantuae); first declension
- Mantua (city)
Declension
editFirst-declension noun, singular only.
Case | Singular |
---|---|
Nominative | Mantua |
Genitive | Mantuae |
Dative | Mantuae |
Accusative | Mantuam |
Ablative | Mantuā |
Vocative | Mantua |
Descendants
editReferences
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
editPronunciation
editProper noun
editMantua ?
- A town in Pinar del Río, Cuba
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