Old English · proper noun
Cartaina
- Part of speech
- proper noun, feminine
- Modern English
- carthagetunisia
Meaning
-
of Carthage (an ancient historical city in Tunisia)
Æfter þǣm þe Rōmeburg ġetimbred wæs IIII hunde wintra ⁊ II, þætte Cartaina þǣre burge ǣrendracan cōmon tō Rōme ⁊ him ġebudon þæt hīe frið him betwēonum hæfden...
Four hundred and two years after the city of Rome was built, ambassadors [from] the city of Carthage came to Rome and proposed that there be peace between them...
late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans
Etymology
From the oblique cases of Latin Carthāgō
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