Mantua

See also: mantua, Mântua, and Mantüa

English

Etymology

From Latin Mantua.

Proper noun

Mantua

1. Province of Lombardy, Italy.
2. City and capital of Mantua.
   • (Can we date this quote?), William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

     He and I / Will watch thy waking, and that very night / Shall Romeo bear thee hence to Mantua.

Translations

province

• French: Mantoue (fr)
• Italian: Mantova (it)
• Polish: Mantua (pl) f
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• Portuguese: Mântua
• Russian: Ма́нтуя (ru) f (Mántuja)

city

• Catalan: Màntua
• Czech: Mantova
• French: Mantoue (fr)
• Greek: Μάντουα [ˈmantuˌa] or [ˈma(n)duˌa] f, Μάντοβα [ˈmanto̞ˌva] or [ˈma(n)do̞ˌva] f
• Hebrew: מנטובה f
• Italian: Mantova (it) f
• Latin: Mantua
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• Lombard: Mantua
• Occitan: Màntoa
• Polish: Mantua (pl) f
• Portuguese: Mântua
• Russian: Ма́нтуя (ru) f (Mántuja)
• Sicilian: Màntuva
• Spanish: Mantua (es)

Anagrams

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Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Etruscan *𐌌𐌀𐌍𐌈𐌅𐌀 (*manθva), from 𐌌𐌀𐌍𐌈 (manθ, “Mantus, god of the underworld”). Compare 𐌌𐌀𐌍𐌈𐌅𐌀𐌕𐌄 (manθvate, “Mantuan”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈman.tu.a/, [ˈmän̪t̪uä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈman.tu.a/, [ˈmän̪t̪uä]

Proper noun

Mantua f sg (genitive Mantuae); first declension

1. Mantua (city)

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Mantua
Genitive	Mantuae
Dative	Mantuae
Accusative	Mantuam
Ablative	Mantuā
Vocative	Mantua

Descendants

• English: Mantua
• French: Mantoue
• Italian: Mantova

References

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