Poenus

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Φοῖνιξ (Phoînix) + -us, from Mycenaean Greek 𐀡𐀛𐀑𐀍 (po-ni-ki-jo) under influence from φοινός (phoinós, “crimson red”) owing to its relation to Tyrian purple, apparently from or cognate with Egyptian fnḫw (“Asiatics, Semites”),

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Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpoe̯.nus/, [ˈpoe̯nʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.nus/, [ˈpɛːnus]

Noun

Poenus m sg (genitive Poenī); second declension

1. (historical) Carthaginian, a person from Carthage or its empire

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	Poenus	Poenī
genitive	Poenī	Poenōrum
dative	Poenō	Poenīs
accusative	Poenum	Poenōs
ablative	Poenō	Poenīs
vocative	Poene	Poenī

Synonyms

• Carthaginiensis

Derived terms

• poenicus

References

• “Poenus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Poenus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “Poenus”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎^[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC