Carinae

See also: carinae

Translingual

Proper noun

Carinae

1. (astronomy) Genitive of Carina used when naming stars, such as α Carinae.

Latin

Etymology

From carīna (“keel”); according to Servius (In Vergilii Aeneidem Commentarii. VIII. 361), from the shape of buildings near the temple of Tellus located here.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kaˈriː.nae̯]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kaˈriː.ne]

Proper noun

Carīnae f pl (genitive Carīnārum); first declension

1. a Roman district situated at the western end of the southern spur of the Esquiline Hill, likely conflated with the Fāgūtal

Declension

First-declension noun, plural only.

	plural
nominative	Carīnae
genitive	Carīnārum
dative	Carīnīs
accusative	Carīnās
ablative	Carīnīs
vocative	Carīnae

See also

• Esquilīnus mons
• Fāgūtal
• Oppius mons

Further reading

• “Carinae”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Carinae”, in Samuel Ball Platner (1929), Thomas Ashby, editor, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press