Cartaina

Old English

Proper noun

Cartaina f

1. Carthage (ancient city in Tunisia)
   • late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans

     Æfter þǣm þe Rōmeburg ġetimbred wæs IIII hunde wintra ⁊ II, þætte Cartaina þǣre burge ǣrendracan cōmon tō Rōme ⁊ him ġebudon þæt hīe frið him betwēonum hæfden...

     Four hundred and two years after the city of Rome was built, ambassadors [from] the city of Carthage came to Rome and proposed that there be peace between them...

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “Cartaina”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.