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
- modern Cádiz, originally a Phoenician colony in Hispania Baetica on an island of the same name
- (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