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Definition: Punic |
PunicAdjective1. Of or relating to or characteristic of ancient Carthage or its people or their language; "the Punic Wars"; "Carthaginian peace". 2. Tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans; "Punic faith"; "the perfidious Judas"; "the fiercest and most treacherous of foes"; "treacherous intrigues". Noun1. The Phoenician dialect of ancient Carthage. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Punic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Etymology: Punic \Pu"nic\, adjective. [Latin expression Punicus pertaining to Carthage, or its inhabitants, from Poeni the Carthaginians.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: PunicSynonyms: perfidious (adj), treacherous (adj). (additional references) |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Improbity | Noun: improbity; dishonesty, dishonor; deviation from rectitude; disgrace; (disrepute); fraud; (deception); lying; bad faith, Punic faith; mala fides, Punica fides; infidelity; faithlessness; Adjective: Judas kiss, betrayal. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Punic |
| English words defined with "Punic": Aegadean Isles, Aegates Isles ♦ battle of Zama ♦ Carthaginian ♦ Hannibal ♦ Metaurus River ♦ Publius Cornelius Scipio, Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Major ♦ Scipio, Scipio Africanus, Scipio Africanus Major, Scipio the Elder ♦ To stand in ♦ Zama. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Punic": Hispania ♦ Punic Faith. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "Punic": gorilla. (references) |
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Economic History | Malta | During the second Punic War (218 B.C.), Malta became part of the Roman Empire. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Punic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Punic" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 75% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (singular) | 25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "Punic": punic faith ♦ punic wars. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
punic war | 121 |
punic second war | 12 |
picture punic war | 9 |
punic third war | 8 |
map punic war | 7 |
hannibal punic war | 6 |
the first punic war | 6 |
map punic second war | 4 |
general punic war | 4 |
punic | 3 |
hannibal punic second war | 3 |
2nd punic war | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "Punic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | punik, kartagjenas, i pabesë (backhand, disloyal, faithless, false-hearted, perfidious, sacrilegious, traitorous, treacherous, unfaithful, viperous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | قرطاجي (carthaginian). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | картагенски език, картагенски (carthaginian), пунически. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | punský. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | punique. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καρχηδονιακόσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | pun. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | punico. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | Pioonagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | unicpay cartaginês (carthaginian). (various references) trãdare (betrayal, betraying, breach of faith, perfidy, punic faith, treachery, treason). (various references) пунический. (various references) punski. (various references) púnico. (various references) punisk. (various references) kartacalılara ait. (various references) пунічний (carthaginian). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | buna, poena, poenae, poenam, poenas, poenis, punica, punici, punicorum, punicum. (various references) |
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Misspellings | |
"Punic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Lunik, Pauric, Pendik, Pkunzip, Pondick, ponic, Pucik, pudic, Pugni, Punia, punid, punnic, Putnik. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "Punic" (pronounced 'Pu"nic'): Aganglionic, Allemannic, Ammonic, Atechnic, Britannic, Caffetannic, Carnic, Cornic, Funic, Gallotannic, Hennotannic, Komenic, Metastannic, Mimotannic, Mischnic, Mishnic, Morintannic, Oxyphenic, Paleotechnic, Phenic, Pinic, Polytechnic, Quercitannic, runic, splanchnic, Stannic, Strychnic, Stryphnic, Styphnic, Sulphostannic, tannic, tunic, Usnic. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-i-n-p-u" | |
-1 letter: unci. | |
-2 letters: cup, nip, pic, pin, piu, pun. | |
-3 letters: in, nu, pi, un, up. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-i-n-p-u" | |
+1 letter: unclip, unpick. | |
+2 letters: couping, cupping, duckpin, eupneic, insculp, kingcup, nutpick, panicum, penuchi, puranic, sculpin, unclips, unpicks. | |
+3 letters: capuchin, chipmunk, chumping, clumping, coupling, crumping, cupeling, cuppings, duckpins, euphenic, euphonic, eupnoeic, insculps, kingcups, nutpicks, panicums, penuchis, picayune, pinchbug, piquance, piquancy, plucking, plutonic, pouching, pouncing, publican, pulicene, pulmonic, pumicing, punchier, punchily, punching, punditic, sculping, sculpins, sinciput, sprucing, unpicked, unpoetic, unpriced, upcoming. | |
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