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Carthago

Carthago

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Where it lives

Densest 12 of 96 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. Carthāgo — Lewis & Short

Carthāgo (Karth-, and without asp. Kartāgo), ĭnis (

I locat. Carthagini, like Tiburi, ruri, domi, etc., Plaut. Cas. prol. 71; Cic. Agr. 2, 33, 90; Liv. 28, 26, 1 sq.; 31, 11, 7 al.; cf. Schneid. Gr. 2. p. 236; Zumpt, Gr. § 63, note), f., (prop. new town: istam urbem Carthadam Elissa dixit, quod Phoenicum ore exprimit Civitatem Novam, Sol. c. 40 (27, 10 Bip.); cf. Gesen. Gesch. d. Hebr. Spr. and Schr. pp. 228 and 229; and Robinson, Lexic. s. v. ).
I The city of Carthage, in Northern Africa (Gr. *karxhdw/n), whose ruins are in the vicinity of Tunis; also with the app. Magna, Mel. 1, 7, 2; Plin. 5, 1, 1, § 4; 5, 4, 3, § 24; Cato ap. Serv. ad Verg. A. 4, 683 al. —Hence,
B Carthāgĭnĭensis (upon the Column. Rostr. CARTACINIENSIS), e, adj., Carthaginian: COPIAE, Column. Rostr.: res, Liv. 21, 2, 5 et saep.—Subst., a Carthaginian, Enn. Ann. 230 and 234 Vahl.; Cat. ap. Gell. 10, 24, 7.—
II Carthago, also with the appel. Nova, a large seaport town founded by the Carthaginians after the first Punic war, in Hispania Tarraconensis, New Carthage, now Cartagena, Liv. 26, 42, 2 and 6 sq.; Mel. 2, 6, 7: Nova, Liv. 21, 5, 4; Plin. 3, 3, 4, § 19.—Hence (cf. I.),
B Carthā-gĭnĭensis, e, adj., of or belonging to New Carthage: ager, Varr. R. R. 1, 57, 2: conventus, Plin. 3, 3, 4, § 18.—In the form CARTHAGINENSIS, Inscr. Orell. 3040.

2. Carthāgo — Lewis & Short

Carthāgo (Karth-), ĭnis, f.,

I the daughter of the fourth Hercules, Cic. N. D. 3, 16, 42.

3. Carthagó — Walde–Hofmann

Carthagó, -inis f. (seit Plaut.), gr. Kapynbibv: nach Friedrich IF. 39, 102 ff. durch verschiedene Dissimilationen aus *Karthädön-, vgl. Carthada (Solin, Isid.), Kurzform für pun. Qart-hadasat „Neustadt“. . eartibulum, -; n. „einfüßiger, viereckiger, steinerner Tisch zum Aufstellen der Gefäße neben dem Impluvium* (Varro 1.1. 5, 125; in Pompeji aus Marmor und in der Regel mit vier Löwenfüßen, Mau Privatleben 220. … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. Carthagó, p. 206]

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Where it came from

  • Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. Carthagó (scan p. 206; entry #583). Root candidates: *harup-.

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