Mantua

See also: mantua, Mântua, and Mantüa

English

Etymology

From Latin Mantua.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Southern England):

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

• Audio (Southern England):

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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, [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

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.

	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.

Polish

Etymology

From Latin Mantua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /manˈtu.a/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ua
• Syllabification: Man‧tu‧a

Proper noun

Mantua f (related adjective mantuański, demonym mantuańczyk, female demonym mantuanka)

1. Mantua (a city and province of Lombardy, Italy)

Declension

Declension of Mantua

	singular
nominative	Mantua
genitive	Mantui
dative	Mantui
accusative	Mantuę
instrumental	Mantuą
locative	Mantui
vocative	Mantuo

References

• Mantua in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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