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Definition of Punic in English: Punicadjective ˈpjuːnɪkˈpjunɪk Relating to ancient Carthage. Example sentencesExamples - The Septimii were of Punic origin, his mother's family of Italian descent.
- In 149 the tribesmen again raided, but this time a Punic army followed them and destroyed their camps.
- The Punic and Macedonian Wars of the 3rd and 2nd centuries B.C. had kept Roman soldiers away from Rome for years at a time.
- But on the flanks were the cavalry for both contestants, and the Punic cavalry defeated the Roman.
- The Second Punic War began in Spain.
- Spies from Rome And Carthage both trying to get the upper hand, clash between Punic trade mentality and Roman militancy.
- The era of the Roman Republic falls between 509 B.C. and the Battle of Actium in 31 B.C. Rome under the Republic consolidated its power both at home and abroad, especially during the Punic and Macedonian Wars.
- After the Second Punic War, the Roman domination of Portugal began.
- It was still natural for the son to give thanks to a Punic god and to express himself solely in the Punic language.
- When Tyre fell under the domination of Assyria, a Punic (western Phoenicians) trading empire was established based on the former Phoenician colonies in the western Mediterranean.
- The book was entitled "The Experience of Battle in the Second Punic War."
- On the island you can still see Phoenician settlements, Punic cities, Greek temples, Roman amphitheatres, Norman Arab castles and Aragonese churches.
- In Carthage, a colony established in present-day Tunisia, the Punic version of their alphabet continued in use until the 3c AD.
- The Punic power fell, because there is in this materialism a mad indifference to real thought.
- The Punic admiral's retreat was ill-received at home, and Carthage responded with a larger force, prying out the Romans.
- The bilingual inscriptions and the assimilation of Punic and Roman gods represented on them point to a process of cultural adaptation far from complete when Apuleius was in Tripolitania.
- Old Punic legends seemed to linger in the palm-fringed gardens below the palace wall.
- During the second Punic war between Rome and Carthage, Syracuse was held by the mercenary Hippocrates for the Carthaginians.
- Between the Punic and Roman periods the first episode of economic specialization and a link with international commercial networks occurred.
- An expeditionary force caused the Punic (the Roman word for Carthaginian) fleet to withdraw and that could well have been that.
Synonyms dishonest, untruthful, lying, mendacious, insincere, false, deceiving, dissembling, disingenuous, untrustworthy, unscrupulous, unprincipled, two-faced, duplicitous, double-dealing, cheating, underhand, crafty, cunning, sly, guileful, scheming, calculating, conniving, designing, hypocritical, perfidious, treacherous, machiavellian, janus-faced
noun ˈpjuːnɪkˈpjunɪk mass nounThe language of Carthage, related to Phoenician. Example sentencesExamples - Apuleius's claim in the Apology that Sicinius Pudens mostly spoke Punic thus makes perfect sense.
- It was for them that a large work, written in Punic, of 28 books on agriculture was produced by a certain Mago.
- On the farms the peasants were Berber and Phoenician, speaking Punic.
- Devastating odors assaulted her, and the noise of humans screaming in Latin, Greek, German, Punic, Hebrew, Berber, Egyptian, Arabic.
Origin From Latin Punicus (earlier Poenicus), from Poenus, from Greek Phoinix 'Phoenician'. Definition of Punic in US English: Punicadjectiveˈpyo͞onikˈpjunɪk Relating to Carthage. Example sentencesExamples - In 149 the tribesmen again raided, but this time a Punic army followed them and destroyed their camps.
- It was still natural for the son to give thanks to a Punic god and to express himself solely in the Punic language.
- During the second Punic war between Rome and Carthage, Syracuse was held by the mercenary Hippocrates for the Carthaginians.
- The Punic admiral's retreat was ill-received at home, and Carthage responded with a larger force, prying out the Romans.
- The Punic power fell, because there is in this materialism a mad indifference to real thought.
- In Carthage, a colony established in present-day Tunisia, the Punic version of their alphabet continued in use until the 3c AD.
- The bilingual inscriptions and the assimilation of Punic and Roman gods represented on them point to a process of cultural adaptation far from complete when Apuleius was in Tripolitania.
- On the island you can still see Phoenician settlements, Punic cities, Greek temples, Roman amphitheatres, Norman Arab castles and Aragonese churches.
- But on the flanks were the cavalry for both contestants, and the Punic cavalry defeated the Roman.
- Old Punic legends seemed to linger in the palm-fringed gardens below the palace wall.
- The era of the Roman Republic falls between 509 B.C. and the Battle of Actium in 31 B.C. Rome under the Republic consolidated its power both at home and abroad, especially during the Punic and Macedonian Wars.
- Spies from Rome And Carthage both trying to get the upper hand, clash between Punic trade mentality and Roman militancy.
- The Septimii were of Punic origin, his mother's family of Italian descent.
- An expeditionary force caused the Punic (the Roman word for Carthaginian) fleet to withdraw and that could well have been that.
- When Tyre fell under the domination of Assyria, a Punic (western Phoenicians) trading empire was established based on the former Phoenician colonies in the western Mediterranean.
- The Second Punic War began in Spain.
- After the Second Punic War, the Roman domination of Portugal began.
- The Punic and Macedonian Wars of the 3rd and 2nd centuries B.C. had kept Roman soldiers away from Rome for years at a time.
- The book was entitled "The Experience of Battle in the Second Punic War."
- Between the Punic and Roman periods the first episode of economic specialization and a link with international commercial networks occurred.
Synonyms dishonest, untruthful, lying, mendacious, insincere, false, deceiving, dissembling, disingenuous, untrustworthy, unscrupulous, unprincipled, two-faced, duplicitous, double-dealing, cheating, underhand, crafty, cunning, sly, guileful, scheming, calculating, conniving, designing, hypocritical, perfidious, treacherous, machiavellian, janus-faced
nounˈpyo͞onikˈpjunɪk The language of ancient Carthage, related to Phoenician. Example sentencesExamples - Apuleius's claim in the Apology that Sicinius Pudens mostly spoke Punic thus makes perfect sense.
- On the farms the peasants were Berber and Phoenician, speaking Punic.
- It was for them that a large work, written in Punic, of 28 books on agriculture was produced by a certain Mago.
- Devastating odors assaulted her, and the noise of humans screaming in Latin, Greek, German, Punic, Hebrew, Berber, Egyptian, Arabic.
Origin From Latin Punicus (earlier Poenicus), from Poenus, from Greek Phoinix ‘Phoenician’. |