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adj
Of or relating to ancient Carthage, its inhabitants, or their language.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: Carthaginian
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Perfidious, treacherous, faithless.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: ethnic, figuratively, slur
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Synonyms: double-dealing, infidelitous, ratlike, booky, dastardly, disleal, disloyal, double-crossing, double-faced, double-hearted, doublehearted, faithless, false, falseheart, false-hearted, guiled, guileful, hollow-hearted, illoyal, insidious, Judaslike, Judasly, nonfaithful, perfidious, proditorious, proditory, Punic, recreant, renegade, reptilian, reptitious, swike, traitorish, traitorlike, traitorly, traitorous, traitorsome, treacherous, treachersome, trothless, unfaithful, unleal, unloyal, unsteadfast, untrue, viperish, viperous
Antonyms: none provided
name
The language of Carthage.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A native or inhabitant of ancient Carthage; a Carthaginian.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adjective
of or relating to or characteristic of ancient Carthage or its people or their language
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: Carthaginian
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: perfidious, treacherous
Antonyms: none provided
noun
the Phoenician dialect of ancient Carthage
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: Phoenician
History
From Latin Pūnicus, variant of Poenicus, from Poenus + -icus, from Ancient Greek Φοῖνιξ (Phoînix), from Mycenaean Greek 𐀡𐀛𐀑𐀍 (po-ni-ki-jo) under influence from φοινός (phoinós, “crimson red”) owing to its relation to Tyrian purple, apparently from or cognate with Egyptian fnḫw (“Asiatics, Semites”), f:n:x-w-V12:Z2. Equivalent to a modified Phoenician + -ic.
Across languages
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