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punic::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Synonyms | carthaginian |
punic::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Synonyms | perfidious, treacherous |
punic::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Type of | phoenician |
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The Romans knew several varieties such as venus, ram, and punic chickpeas.
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Punic tombs have been found at St Edward's Street and Tal-Bajjada.
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Punic remains uncovered beyond the city's walls suggest the importance of the general region to Malta's Phoenician settlers.
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Punic tombs have also been discovered, and the votive terra-cottas of a small sanctuary of the Punic period were found near the north coast.
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According to this theory, the temple with statues would have been erected to commemorate nuragic victories against the Carthaginian invaders, during the sardo-punic wars.
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Punic culture became a melting pot, since Carthage was a big trading port in the known world but they retained some of their old cultural identities and practices, such as child sacrifice.
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Punic remains of catacombs are dotted all around the village, and most of them remain undiscovered, but plans state that they will be explored in the future.
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- Carthaginian: of or relating to or characteristic of ancient Carthage or its people or their language; "the Punic Wars"; "Carthaginian peace"
- The Phoenician dialect of ancient Carthage
- 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"
- The Punic language or Carthagian language is an extinct Semitic language formerly spoken in the Mediterranean region of North Africa and several Mediterranean islands, by people of the Punic culture.
- The Punics (from Latin pu016Bnicus, pl. pu016Bnici), also known as Carthaginians, were a people from Ancient Carthage in modern-day Tunisia, North Africa, who traced their origins to the Phoenicians and Berbers. Punic is the English adjective derived from the Latin adjective punicus to describe anything Carthaginian. Their language, Punic, was a dialect of Phoenician.
