Gades

gades Gadès Gaðes English Proper noun en historical Cadiz, Spain. Latin Cadiz Etymology la Gādēs :bor phn:𐤂𐤃𐤓<t:a walled enclosure><ts:gādēr, gādīr> + 1 Compare grc Γᾱ́δειρα n-p. The change from r to s in Latin is because of ongoing rhotacism at the time, when the two phonemes /r/ and /s/ were still often interchangeable in Latin. Pronunciation Gādēs Proper noun Gādēs<3.I.pl.loc> f modern Cádiz, originally a Phoenician colony in Hispania Baetica on an island of the same name la figurative an end or limit from its location at the south-western extremity of Spain, on the edge of the Old World Horace, quoted in Dictionary of Latin quotations, proverbs, maxims and mottos, classical and medieval, including law terms and phrases : with a selection of Greek quotations (1866) "You may possess a more extensive dominion by con- trolling a craving disposition, than if you could unite Libya to the distant Gades, and the natives of either Carthage were subject to you alone." Silius Italicus, Punica With An English Translation By James Duff: "So Hamilcar left his design of war concealed in his secret heart, and made for Calpe and Gades, the limit of the world; but, while carrying the standards of Africa to the Pillars of Hercules, he fell in a hard-fought battle." Juvenal, quoted in Dictionary of Latin quotations, proverbs, maxims and mottos, classical and medieval, including law terms and phrases : with a selection of Greek quotations (1866) "In all the lands which lie from Gades even to the land of the morn and the Ganges, few are able to re-move the clouds of prejudice, and to discern those things which are really for their good, and those which are directly the contrary." Declension Gādēs<3.I.pl.loc> Derived terms la Gādītānus Descendants fr Gadès 1 la Gādītānus 1 ar قَادِس 1 References la Ancient Europe Cities in Spain History of Spain