Hannibal

English

Etymology

From Latin Hannibal, a rendering of Punic 𐤇𐤍𐤁𐤏𐤋 (ḥnbʿl /⁠ḥannībaʿl⁠/, “May the Lord (Baal) grace me”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhænɪbəl/

Proper noun

Hannibal (countable and uncountable, plural Hannibals)

1. A male given name from Punic of mostly historical use. Most notably borne by the Carthaginian general Hannibal, son of Hamilcar.
2. A city in Missouri, United States.
   • 1909, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], quoting Courier-Post, “Is Shakespeare Dead?”, in What Is Man? And Other Essays, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, published May 1917, page 374:

     Hannibal, as a city, may have many sins to answer for, but ingratitude is not one of them, or reverence for the great men she has produced, and as the years go by her greatest son, Mark Twain, or S. L. Clemens as a few of the unlettered call him, grows in the estimation and regard of the residents of the town he made famous and the town that made him famous.

Translations

name

• Arabic: حَنَّبَعْل m (ḥannabaʕl)
• Armenian: Հաննիբալ (Hannibal)
• Bulgarian: Ханиба́л m (Hanibál)
• Catalan: Hanníbal m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 汉尼拔 (zh)

• Dutch: Hannibal
• Esperanto: Hanibalo
• Faroese: Hannibal m
• French: Annibal (fr), Hannibal
• German: Hannibal (de)
• Greek: Αννίβας (el) m (Annívas)

  Ancient Greek: Ἀννίβας m (Anníbas)

• Icelandic: Hannibal (is) m
• Italian: Annibale (it) m
• Latin: Hannibal m
• Persian: حنیبعل (hanniba'l), هانیبال (hāznibāl)
• Portuguese: Aníbal (pt) m
• Punic: 𐤇𐤍𐤁𐤏𐤋 m (ḥnbʿl)
• Russian: Ганниба́л (ru) m (Gannibál), Аннибал (ru) (Annibal)
• Spanish: Aníbal (es) m

Faroese

Etymology

From Latin Hannibal, from Punic 𐤇𐤍𐤁𐤏𐤋 (ḥnbʿl /⁠ḥannībaʿl⁠/, “May the Lord (Baal) grace me”).

Proper noun

Hannibal m

1. Hannibal

Declension

	singular
	indefinite
nominative	Hannibal
accusative	Hannibal
dative	Hannibali
genitive	Hannibals

Icelandic

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Hannibal, from Punic 𐤇𐤍𐤁𐤏𐤋 (ḥnbʿl /⁠ḥannībaʿl⁠/, “May the Lord (Baal) grace me”).

Proper noun

Hannibal m (proper noun, genitive singular Hannibals)

1. a male given name

Declension

Declension of Hannibal (sg-only masculine)

indefinite singular
nominative	Hannibal
accusative	Hannibal
dative	Hannibal
genitive	Hannibals

Latin

Alternative forms

• Annibal

Etymology

From Punic 𐤇𐤍𐤁𐤏𐤋 (ḥnbʿl /⁠ḥannībaʿl⁠/, “May the Lord (Baal) grace me”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈhan.nɪ.baɫ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈan.ni.bal]

Proper noun

Hannibal m sg (genitive Hannibā̆lis); third declension

1. a male given name from Punic
2. the Carthaginian general Hannibal Barca

Declension

Third-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Hannibal
genitive	Hannibā̆lis
dative	Hannibā̆lī
accusative	Hannibā̆lem
ablative	Hannibā̆le
vocative	Hannibal

Descendants

• → English: Hannibal
• Italian: Annibale
• Portuguese: Aníbal
• Spanish: Aníbal

References

• “Hannibal”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Hannibal”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Hannibal”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Old English

Etymology

From Latin Hannibal, from Punic 𐤇𐤍𐤁𐤏𐤋 (ḥnbʿl /⁠ḥannībaʿl⁠/, “May the Lord (Baal) grace me”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxɑn.ni.bɑl/, [ˈhɑn.ni.bɑl]

Proper noun

Hannibal m

1. Hannibal, a Carthaginian general

Declension

Strong a-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	Hannibal	—
accusative	Hannibal	—
genitive	Hannibales	—
dative	Hannibale	—

The name is also sometimes inflected as a weak noun:

Weak n-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	Hannibale	—
accusative	Hannibalan	—
genitive	Hannibalan	—
dative	Hannibalan	—

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Hannibal, from Punic 𐤇𐤍𐤁𐤏𐤋 (ḥnbʿl /⁠ḥannībaʿl⁠/).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xanˈɲi.bal/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ibal
• Syllabification: Han‧ni‧bal

Proper noun

Hannibal m pers

1. (historical, politics) Hannibal (Carthaginian general and statesman)

Declension

Declension of Hannibal

	singular
nominative	Hannibal
genitive	Hannibala
dative	Hannibalowi
accusative	Hannibala
instrumental	Hannibalem
locative	Hannibalu
vocative	Hannibalu

Further reading

• “Hannibal”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[1] (in Polish)

Portuguese

Proper noun

Hannibal m

1. alternative form of Aníbal