Mantua

From Latin Mantua.

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

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

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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.

• tamanu

Borrowed from Etruscan *𐌌𐌀𐌍𐌈𐌅𐌀 (*manθva), from 𐌌𐌀𐌍𐌈 (manθ, “Mantus, god of the underworld”). Compare 𐌌𐌀𐌍𐌈𐌅𐌀𐌕𐌄 (manθvate, “Mantuan”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈman.tu.a/, [ˈmän̪t̪uä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈman.tu.a/, [ˈmän̪t̪uä]

Mantua f sg (genitive Mantuae); first declension

1. Mantua (city)

First-declension noun, singular only.

• English: Mantua
• French: Mantoue
• Italian: Mantova

• “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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmantwa/ [ˈmãn̪.t̪wa]
• Rhymes: -antwa
• Syllabification: Man‧tua

Mantua ?

1. A town in Pinar del Río, Cuba