Carthago

la-proper noun

Carthāgō f sg (genitive Carthāginis); third declension

Carthāgō (canonical feminine singular)
Carthāginis (genitive)
Carthāgō (nominative singular)
Carthāginis (genitive singular)
Carthāginī (dative singular)
Carthāginem (accusative singular)
Carthāgine (ablative singular)
Carthāgō (singular vocative)
Carthāgine (locative singular)
Carthāginī (locative singular)
Kartāgō (alternative)
Karthāgō (alternative)

→ Dutch: Carthago

→ English: Carthage

→ French: Carthage

→ German: Karthago

→ Italian: Cartagine

→ Portuguese: Cartago

→ Romanian: Cartagina

→ Spanish: Cartago

Borrowed 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 (kiryah), חָדָשׁ (ḥāḏāš, “new”), Aramaic קַרְתָּא (qartā, “city”), חֲדַתָּא (ḥəḏattā, “new”), Arabic قَرْيَة (qarya, “village”), and Arabic حَدِيث (ḥadīṯ, “new”). Doublet of Carchēdōn and Carthada.

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(chiefly historical) synonym of Carthagenna, Cartagena (a city in Spain)


Palma

la-proper noun

Palma f sg (genitive Palmae); first declension

Palmae (genitive)
Palma (nominative singular)
Palmae (genitive singular)
Palmae (dative singular)
Palmam (accusative singular)
Palmā (ablative singular)
Palma (singular vocative)
Palmae (locative singular)

Palma de Mallorca
Palma de Mallorca#English

Balearic Islands
Balearic Islands#English

Palma, Palma de Mallorca (a city and port, the capital of the Balearic Islands, Spain, on the island of Mallorca; in full, Palma de Mallorca)


Hispalis

Hispalis f sg (genitive Hispalis); third declension

Hispalis (genitive)
Hispalis (nominative singular)
Hispalis (genitive singular)
Hispalī (dative singular)
Hispalem (accusative singular)
Hispale (ablative singular)
Hispalis (singular vocative)
Hispalī (locative singular)
Hispale (locative singular)

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إِشْبِيلِيَة

→ Arabic: إِشْبِيلِيَة

→ Arabic: إِشْبِيلِيَة

Ultimately from Phoenician 𐤔𐤐𐤋𐤄 (šplh /sefela/, “valley, plain”).

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Seville (the capital city of modern Andalusia, Spain)


Malaca

la-proper noun

Malaca f sg (genitive Malacae); first declension

Malacae (genitive)
Malaca (nominative singular)
Malacae (genitive singular)
Malacae (dative singular)
Malacam (accusative singular)
Malacā (ablative singular)
Malaca (singular vocative)
Malacae (locative singular)

desctree

→ Arabic: مالقة
→ Hijazi Arabic: مالقة (learned)
→ Spanish: Málaga
→ Catalan: Màlaga
→ English: Malaga, Málaga
→ Greek: Μάλαγα (Málaga)
→ Hebrew: מָלָגָה (Malága)
→ Polish: Malaga, Málaga
→ Portuguese: Málaga
→ Russian: Ма́лага (Málaga)

From Phoenician 𐤌𐤋𐤊 (mlk), possibly via Ancient Greek Μαλάκη (Malákē) and possibly from Proto-West Semitic *milḥ- (“salt”).


Brigantia

la-proper noun

Brigantia f (genitive Brigantiae); first declension

Brigantiae (genitive)
Brigantia (nominative singular)
Brigantiae (genitive singular)
Brigantiae (dative singular)
Brigantiam (accusative singular)
Brigantiā (ablative singular)
Brigantia (singular vocative)
Brigantiae (locative singular)

Portuguese: Bragança

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German: Bregenz
→ English: Bregenz
→ French: Brégence

Italian: Brianza

From Proto-Celtic *Brigantī, *brigantī, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰérǵʰonts, from the root *bʰerǵʰ-.

ancient name of A Coruña (a city in Galicia, Spain)


Gades

la-proper noun

Gādēs f pl (genitive Gādium); third declension

Gādēs (canonical feminine plural)
Gādium (genitive)
Gādēs (nominative plural)
Gādium (genitive plural)
Gādibus (dative plural)
Gādēs (accusative plural)
Gādīs (accusative plural)
Gādibus (ablative plural)
Gādēs (plural vocative)
Gādibus (locative plural)

→ French: Gadès

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⇒ Latin: Gādītānus
→ Catalan: gadità
→ English: Gaditanian
→ French: gaditan
→ Italian: gaditano
→ Portuguese: gaditano
→ Spanish: gaditano

→ Arabic: قَادِس (qādis)
Hijazi Arabic: قادس (gādis)
→ Galician: Cais
→ Spanish: Cádiz
→ English: Cádiz, Cadiz
→ Italian: Cadice, Càdice
→ French: Cadix
→ Venetan: Càdice

Borrowed from Phoenician 𐤂𐤃𐤓 (gdr /gādēr, gādīr/, “a walled enclosure”); compare Ancient Greek Γᾱ́δειρα n pl (Gā́deira).

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You may possess a more extensive dominion by con- trolling a craving disposition, than if you could unite Libya to the distant Gades, and the natives of either Carthage were subject to you alone.

Horace, quoted in Dictionary of Latin quotations, proverbs, maxims and mottos, classical and medieval, including law terms and phrases : with a selection of Greek quotations (1866)

So Hamilcar left his design of war concealed in his secret heart, and made for Calpe and Gades, the limit of the world; but, while carrying the standards of Africa to the Pillars of Hercules, he fell in a hard-fought battle.

Silius Italicus, Punica With An English Translation By James Duff

In all the lands which lie from Gades even to the land of the morn and the Ganges, few are able to re-move the clouds of prejudice, and to discern those things which are really for their good, and those which are directly the contrary.

Juvenal, quoted in Dictionary of Latin quotations, proverbs, maxims and mottos, classical and medieval, including law terms and phrases : with a selection of Greek quotations (1866)

(figurative) an end or limit (from its location at the south-western extremity of Spain, on the edge of the Old World)


Corduba

la-proper noun

Corduba f sg (genitive Cordubae); first declension

Cordubae (genitive)
Corduba (nominative singular)
Cordubae (genitive singular)
Cordubae (dative singular)
Cordubam (accusative singular)
Cordubā (ablative singular)
Corduba (singular vocative)
Cordubae (locative singular)

Old Leonese: Cordova

Asturian: Córdoba

Old Galician-Portuguese: Cordova

Fala: Córdoba

Galician: Córdoba

Portuguese: Córdova

Spanish: Córdoba

English: Córdoba

From Phoenician 𐤒𐤓𐤕𐤉𐤅𐤁𐤏𐤉 (qrtywbʿy); originally 𐤒𐤓𐤕 (qrt, “city”) + 𐤉𐤅𐤁𐤏𐤉 (ywbʿy, “Juba I”).

compound

(New Latin) Córdoba (the capital of the province of Córdoba, Andalusia, Spain)


Carthago Nova

la-proper noun

Carthāgō Nova f sg (genitive Carthāginis Novae); third declension

Carthāgō Nova (canonical feminine singular)
Carthāginis Novae (genitive)
Carthāgō Nova (nominative singular)
Carthāginis Novae (genitive singular)
Carthāginī Novae (dative singular)
Carthāginem Novam (accusative singular)
Carthāgine Novā (ablative singular)
Carthāgō Nova (singular vocative)
Carthāginī Novae (locative singular)
Carthāgine Novae (locative singular)

From Phoenician 𐤒𐤓𐤕-𐤇𐤃𐤔𐤕 (qrt-ḥdšt), from 𐤒𐤓𐤕 (qrt, “city”) + 𐤇𐤃𐤔𐤕 (ḥdšt, “new”) as opposed to the colonists' mother city of Carthage. Doublet of Carthago, Carchedon, and Carthada.

doublet

(chiefly historical) former name of Carthagenna (= Cartagena): a city in Spain


Brigantium

la-proper noun

Brigantium n sg (genitive Brigantiī or Brigantī); second declension

Brigantiī (genitive)
Brigantī (genitive)
Brigantium (nominative singular)
Brigantiī (genitive singular)
Brigantī (genitive singular)
Brigantiō (dative singular)
Brigantium (accusative singular)
Brigantiō (ablative singular)
Brigantium (singular vocative)
Brigantiī (locative singular)

French: Briançon

ancient name of A Coruña (a city in modern Spain)


Tarraco

Tarracō f sg (genitive Tarracōnis); third declension

Tarracō (canonical feminine singular)
Tarracōnis (genitive)
Tarracō (nominative singular)
Tarracōnis (genitive singular)
Tarracōnī (dative singular)
Tarracōnem (accusative singular)
Tarracōne (ablative singular)
Tarracō (singular vocative)
Tarracōnī (locative singular)
Tarracōne (locative singular)
Tarracōn (alternative)

Old Navarro-Aragonese: Tarragona

Aragonese: Tarragona

→ Spanish: Tarragona

Italian: Tarracona (earlier)

Italian: Tarragona

Old Catalan: Tarragona, Terragona

Catalan: Tarragona

→ Catalan: Tàrraco

→ Portuguese: Tárraco

Sicilian: Tarraguna

→ Spanish: Tárraco

Uncertain. According to William Smith, possibly of Phoenician origin, from [script needed] (tarchon, “citadel, high rock”), referring to the location above the sea. However, compare the names Tarquinia and Tarracina.
Catalan folk etymology derived the name from Tarraho, son of the biblical figure Tubal. Strabo and Megasthenes linked the name to Tearcon, a pharaoh who had campaigned in Spain.

Tarragona (city and Roman provincial capital in Spain)


Toletum

Tolētum n sg (genitive Tolētī); second declension

Tolētum (canonical neuter singular)
Tolētī (genitive)
Tolētum (nominative singular)
Tolētī (genitive singular)
Tolētō (dative singular)
Tolētum (accusative singular)
Tolētō (ablative singular)
Tolētum (singular vocative)
Tolētī (locative singular)

Old Navarro-Aragonese: Toledo

Aragonese: Toledo

Old Catalan: Toledo

Catalan: Toledo

Old Galician-Portuguese: Toledo

Fala: Toledu

Galician: Toledo

Portuguese: Toledo

Old Spanish: Toledo

Ladino: Toledo

Spanish: Toledo

→ English: Toledo

→ Italian: Toledo

[tɔˈɫeː.tũː]

Uncertain; it was described by the Romans as a Celtic city, but no corresponding tribe names are known. Possibly Proto-Celtic *tol- (“hill”), which could be related to *tullom, *tullos (“hole”) << Proto-Indo-European *(s)tew- (“to push, hit”); compare the French city Toulon and Welsh twll (“hole”), but widespread support for the evolution of "hole" to "hill" is lacking.
Some sources cite a Semitic origin (Hebrew טלטול (“wandering”), טילטל (“to wander”)), but this has been dismissed as folk etymology as there is no evidence for a Semitic presence in the region.
Also compare Tolentinum, a town in Picenum.

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Toledo (a Hispanian town, now a city in modern Spain)


Saguntum

la-proper noun

Saguntum n sg (genitive Saguntī); second declension

Saguntī (genitive)
Saguntum (nominative singular)
Saguntī (genitive singular)
Saguntō (dative singular)
Saguntum (accusative singular)
Saguntō (ablative singular)
Saguntum (singular vocative)
Saguntī (locative singular)

From Ancient Greek Σάγουντον (Ságounton).


Valentia

Valentia f sg (genitive Valentiae); first declension

Valentiae (genitive)
Valentia (nominative singular)
Valentiae (genitive singular)
Valentiae (dative singular)
Valentiam (accusative singular)
Valentiā (ablative singular)
Valentia (singular vocative)
Valentiae (locative singular)

desctree

Catalan: València
→ Basque: Valentzia
→ Chinese: 瓦倫西亞 /瓦伦西亚 (Wǎlúnxīyà)
→ Dutch: Valencia
→ English: Valencia
→ Galician: Valencia
→ German: Valencia, Valentz
→ Italian: Valencia
→ Portuguese: Valência
→ Spanish: Valencia, Val. (abbreviation)
→ Cebuano: Valencia
Chinese:
→ Mandarin: 巴倫西亞 /巴伦西亚 (Bālúnxīyà) (transliteration)
→ Tagalog: Valencia
→ Turkish: Valensiya

Corsican: Valenza

French: Valence

Italian: Valenza

Portuguese: Valença

From valentia (“competence, power, vigor”).

The name of several settlements in the Roman world, including:

Valencia (the capital city of the autonomous community of Valencia, Spain)


Osca

la-proper noun

Osca f sg (genitive Oscae); first declension

Oscae (genitive)
Osca (nominative singular)
Oscae (genitive singular)
Oscae (dative singular)
Oscam (accusative singular)
Oscā (ablative singular)
Osca (singular vocative)
Oscae (locative singular)

→ Ancient Greek: Ὄσκα (Óska)

Spanish: Huesca

Hispania Baetica
Hispania Baetica#English


Urgao

Urgaō f sg (genitive Urgaōnis); third declension

Urgaō (canonical feminine singular)
Urgaōnis (genitive)
Urgaō (nominative singular)
Urgaōnis (genitive singular)
Urgaōnī (dative singular)
Urgaōnem (accusative singular)
Urgaōne (ablative singular)
Urgaō (singular vocative)
Urgaōnī (locative singular)
Urgaōne (locative singular)


Lucentum

Lūcentum n sg (genitive Lūcentī); second declension

Lūcentum (canonical neuter singular)
Lūcentī (genitive)
Lūcentum (nominative singular)
Lūcentī (genitive singular)
Lūcentō (dative singular)
Lūcentum (accusative singular)
Lūcentō (ablative singular)
Lūcentum (singular vocative)
Lūcentī (locative singular)

Hispania Tarraconensis
Hispania Tarraconensis#English

a coastal city in Hispania Tarraconensis, now Alicante


Juliobriga

Jūliobriga f sg (genitive Jūliobrigae); first declension

Jūliobriga (canonical feminine singular)
Jūliobrigae (genitive)
Jūliobriga (nominative singular)
Jūliobrigae (genitive singular)
Jūliobrigae (dative singular)
Jūliobrigam (accusative singular)
Jūliobrigā (ablative singular)
Jūliobriga (singular vocative)
Jūliobrigae (locative singular)

From Iūlius + Proto-Celtic *brigā (“hill, fortress”).

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Hispania Tarraconensis
Hispania Tarraconensis

The chief city of the Cantabri in Hispania Tarraconensis, now Logroño


Augusta Emerita

la-proper noun

Augusta Emerita f sg (genitive Augustae Emeritae); first declension

Augustae Emeritae (genitive)
Augusta Emerita (nominative singular)
Augustae Emeritae (genitive singular)
Augustae Emeritae (dative singular)
Augustam Emeritam (accusative singular)
Augustā Emeritā (ablative singular)
Augusta Emerita (singular vocative)
Augustae Emeritae (locative singular)

From Augusta (“imperial majesty; the name of several towns”) and emeritus.


Caesaraugusta

Caesaraugusta f sg (genitive Caesaraugustae); first declension

Caesaraugustae (genitive)
Caesaraugusta (nominative singular)
Caesaraugustae (genitive singular)
Caesaraugustae (dative singular)
Caesaraugustam (accusative singular)
Caesaraugustā (ablative singular)
Caesaraugusta (singular vocative)
Caesaraugustae (locative singular)

Mozarabic: [Term?]

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→ Andalusian Arabic: سَرَقُسْطَة (saraqusṭa)

→ Old Navarro-Aragonese: Zaragoza (see there for further descendants)

Καισαραυγοῦστα

→ Ancient Greek: Καισαραυγοῦστα (Kaisaraugoûsta)

→ English: Caesaraugusta

→ Old High German: [Term?]

Alemannic German: Chhäiseraugscht

German: Kaiseraugst


Rusadir

la-proper noun

Rusadir n sg (genitive Rusadiris); third declension

Rusadiris (genitive)
Rusadir (nominative singular)
Rusadiris (genitive singular)
Rusadirī (dative singular)
Rusadirem (accusative singular)
Rusadire (ablative singular)
Rusadir (singular vocative)
Rusaddir (alternative)
Russader (alternative)
Rhysaddir (alternative)
Ryssadirum (alternative)

From Ancient Greek Ῥυσσάδειρον (Rhussádeiron) etc., from Punic 𐤓𐤔𐤀𐤃𐤓 (ršʾdr).

bor

(historical) former name of Melila: Melilla (a city of Spain; a Spanish exclave surrounded by Morocco)


Abula

la-proper noun

Abula f sg (genitive Abulae); first declension

Abulae (genitive)
Abula (nominative singular)
Abulae (genitive singular)
Abulae (dative singular)
Abulam (accusative singular)
Abulā (ablative singular)
Abula (singular vocative)

(Medieval Latin, New Latin) Ávila (a city in Spain)


Cartala

Cartala f sg (genitive Cartalae); first declension

Cartalae (genitive)
Cartala (nominative singular)
Cartalae (genitive singular)
Cartalae (dative singular)
Cartalam (accusative singular)
Cartalā (ablative singular)
Cartala (singular vocative)
Cartalae (locative singular)

Cartalam, urbem opulentam, caput gentis eius, expugnat diripitque.

[Hannibal] besieged and destroyed Cartala, a rich city, capital of [the Olcades].

a town in Hispania Tarraconensis, capital of the Olcades; now Orgaz (a city in Spain)


Hermandica

Hermandica f sg (genitive Hermandicae); first declension

Hermandicae (genitive)
Hermandica (nominative singular)
Hermandicae (genitive singular)
Hermandicae (dative singular)
Hermandicam (accusative singular)
Hermandicā (ablative singular)
Hermandica (singular vocative)
Hermandicae (locative singular)

a town in Hispania Tarraconensis, now Salamanca (a city in Spain)