Mantua

Mantua

See also: mantua, Mântua, and Mantüa

English

Etymology

From Latin Mantua.

Pronunciation

• (city in Italy): IPA^(key): /ˈmæn.t(j)u.ə/

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• (village in Ohio): IPA^(key): /ˈmæn.ə.weɪ/

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Proper noun

Mantua

1. Province of Lombardy, Italy.
2. City and capital of Mantua.
   • c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene i]:

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

3. A town in Pinar del Río, Cuba,
4. A village in Ohio.

Translations

province

Catalan: Màntua f Corsican: Mantova f, Mantuva f Dutch: Mantua n French: Mantoue (fr) f Italian: Mantova (it) f Lombard: Mantua f, Mantoa f Polish: Mantua (pl) f Portuguese: Mântua Russian: Ма́нтуя (ru) f (Mántuja)

city

Arabic: مانتوفا‎ f (māntūfā) Catalan: Màntua f Corsican: Mantova f, Mantuva f Czech: Mantova Dutch: Mantua n French: Mantoue (fr) f Greek: Μάντουα f (Mántoua), Μάντοβα (el) f (Mántova) Hebrew: מנטובה‎ f Italian: Mantova (it) f Latin: Mantua f Lombard: Mantua f, Mantoa f Occitan: Màntoa f Polish: Mantua (pl) f Portuguese: Mântua Russian: Ма́нтуя (ru) f (Mántuja) Sicilian: Màntuva f Spanish: Mantua (es) f

Anagrams

• tamanu

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Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Etruscan *𐌌𐌀𐌍𐌈𐌅𐌀 (*manθva), from 𐌌𐌀𐌍𐌈 (manθ, “Mantus, god of the underworld”), from Old Latin Latin mānus (“good”), related to Mānēs (“benevolent spirits of the departed”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂- (“timely, opportune”). Compare 𐌌𐌀𐌍𐌈𐌅𐌀𐌕𐌄 (manθvate, “Mantuan”).

Pronunciation

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

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmantwa/ [ˈmãn̪.t̪wa]
• Rhymes: -antwa
• Syllabification: Man‧tua

Proper noun

Mantua ?

1. A town in Pinar del Río, Cuba

Related terms

• mantuano