Carthago

From Middle Dutch carthago, from Latin Carthāgō.

• IPA^(key): /ˌkɑrˈtaː.ɣoː/

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• Hyphenation: Car‧tha‧go

Carthago n

1. Carthage

• Carthaags
• Carthager

• Kartāgō
• Karthāgō

From Phoenician 𐤒𐤓𐤕-𐤇𐤃𐤔𐤕 (qrt-ḥdšt), possibly via Etruscan *𐌂𐌀𐌓𐌈𐌀𐌆𐌀 (*carθaza), from 𐤒𐤓𐤕 (qrt, “city”) + 𐤇𐤃𐤔𐤕 (ḥdšt, “new”) as opposed to the colonists' mother city of Tyre. Compare Hebrew קֶרֶת (qeret, “city”), קִרְיָה (kyriah), חָדָשׁ (ḥāḏāš, “new”), Aramaic קַרְתָּא (qartā, “city”), חֲדַתָּא (ḥəḏattā, “new”), Arabic قَرْيَة (qarya, “village”), and Arabic حَدِيث (ḥadīṯ, “new”). Doublet of Carthago Nova, 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. (historical) Carthage (an ancient city-state and former empire centered on modern Tunisia)
2. (chiefly historical) Synonym of Carthagenna, Cartagena (a city in Spain)

Third-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• → Dutch: Carthago
• → 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”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
• “Carthago”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Carthage”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press
• “Carthago”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Carthago f

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