Gades

See also: gades and Gadès

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡaː.deːs/, [ˈɡäːd̪eːs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡa.des/, [ˈɡäːd̪es]

Proper noun

Gādēs f pl (genitive Gādium); third declension

1. modern Cádiz, originally a Phoenician colony in Hispania Baetica on an island of the same name
2. (figurative) an end or limit (from its location at the south-western extremity of Spain)

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem), with locative, plural only.

Case	Plural
Nominative	Gādēs
Genitive	Gādium
Dative	Gādibus
Accusative	Gādēs Gādīs
Ablative	Gādibus
Vocative	Gādēs
Locative	Gādibus

Derived terms

• Gādītānus

Descendants

• → French: Gadès
• ⇒ 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
    • → Venetian: Càdice

References

• “Gades”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Gades in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette