Carthāgō Carthage

Carthāgō, Carthāginis, (feminine) · Noun

Carthāgō is a Latin Noun that primarily means Carthage.

Definitions for Carthāgō

Wheelock's Latin

Noun

1
Carthage
English derivatives:
a city in North Africa

Oxford Latin Dictionary

Noun

1
Carthage, the capital of the Phoenician empire in N. Africa.
2
(properly w. noua) New Carthage, now Cartagena, a town on the SE. coast of Spain, founded by the Carthaginians.

Sentences with Carthāgō

Latin to English

Vīsus est Rōmae, Ephesī, Athēnīs, et Carthāgine.Compare He was seen at Rome, Ephesus, Athens, and Carthage.

Carthāgō dēlenda est! (Exclaimed by Cato the Elder at Senate meetings prior to the Third Punic War.)Compare Carthage must be destroyed!

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Notes

Definitions
Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 158.
P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 280.
Word frequencies
Paul B. Diederich, The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings, PhD diss., (Columbia University, 1939).

Bibliography

Allen, Joseph H. Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges: Founded on Comparative Grammar. Edited by James B. Greenough, George L. Kittredge, Albert A. Howard, and Benjamin L. D'Ooge. Boston, MA: Ginn & Company, 1903.

Crystal, David. A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. 6th ed. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing, 2008.

Delatte, Louis, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard. Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language]. Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège (L.A.S.L.A.), 1981.

Diederich, Paul B. The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings. PhD diss., Columbia University, 1939.

Francese, Christopher. "Latin Core Vocabulary." Dickinson College Commentaries. Last modified 2014. http://dcc.dickinson.edu/latin-vocabulary-list.

Gildersleeve, Basil L., and Gonzales Lodge. Gildersleeve's Latin Grammar: Third Edition, Revised, and Enlarged. 3rd ed. London, England: Macmillan and Co., 1903.

Glare, Peter G.W. Oxford Latin Dictionary. Vols. 1-8. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1982.

Krüger, Bernd. "Latin Conjugation Tables." Cactus2000. Accessed May 5, 2023. https://latin.cactus2000.de/index.en.php.

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Wheelock, Frederick M. Wheelock's Latin. 6th ed. Revised by Richard A. LaFleur. New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005.

Wiktionary Contributors. "Victionarium." Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. Updated March 18, 2019. https://la.wiktionary.org/wiki/Victionarium:Pagina_prima.

Citation

Chicago (17th ed.)

Allo Contributors. "Carthāgō, Carthāginis (n.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified June 29, 2023. Accessed November 21, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/carthago-carthaginis.