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.

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