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

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

Descendants

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
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