Corduba
Latin
Etymology
From Phoenician 𐤒𐤓𐤕𐤉𐤅𐤁𐤏𐤉 (qrtywbʿy); originally 𐤒𐤓𐤕 (qrt, “city”) + 𐤉𐤅𐤁𐤏𐤉 (ywbʿy, “Juba I”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkɔr.dʊ.ba]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkɔr.d̪u.ba]
Proper noun
Corduba f sg (genitive Cordubae); first declension
- a town in Hispania Baetica in modern Spain
- (New Latin) Córdoba (the capital of the province of Córdoba, Andalusia, Spain)
- (New Latin) Córdoba (a province of Andalusia, Spain, around the city)
Declension
First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | Corduba |
| genitive | Cordubae |
| dative | Cordubae |
| accusative | Cordubam |
| ablative | Cordubā |
| vocative | Corduba |
| locative | Cordubae |
Derived terms
Descendants
- Old Leonese: Cordova
- Asturian: Córdoba
- Old Galician-Portuguese: Cordova
- Spanish: Córdoba
- English: Córdoba
References
- “Corduba”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Corduba in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.