Gades.
modern Cádiz, originally a Phoenician colony in Hispania Baetica on an island of the same name
Meaning & usage
modern Cádiz, originally a Phoenician colony in Hispania Baetica on an island of the same name
an end or limit (from its location at the south-western extremity of Spain, on the edge of the Old World)
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Phoenician 𐤂𐤃𐤓 (gdr /gādēr, gādīr/, “a walled enclosure”); compare Ancient Greek Γᾱ́δειρα n pl (Gā́deira). 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.
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