Hannibal

From Latin Hannibal, a rendering of Punic 𐤇𐤍𐤁𐤏𐤋 (ḥnbʿl /⁠ḥannībaʿl⁠/, “May the Lord (Baal) grace me”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈhænɪbəl/

Hannibal (countable and uncountable, plural Hannibals)

1. A male given name from Punic of mostly historical use. Most notably borne by the Carthaginian general Hannibal, son of Hamilcar.
2. A city in Missouri, United States.
   • 1909, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “Is Shakespeare Dead?”, in What Is Man? And Other Essays, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, published May 1917, page 374:

     Hannibal, as a city, may have many sins to answer for, but ingratitude is not one of them, or reverence for the great men she has produced, and as the years go by her greatest son, Mark Twain, or S. L. Clemens as a few of the unlettered call him, grows in the estimation and regard of the residents of the town he made famous and the town that made him famous.

From Latin Hannibal, from Punic 𐤇𐤍𐤁𐤏𐤋 (ḥnbʿl /⁠ḥannībaʿl⁠/, “May the Lord (Baal) grace me”).

Hannibal m

1. Hannibal

Borrowed from Latin Hannibal, from Punic 𐤇𐤍𐤁𐤏𐤋 (ḥnbʿl /⁠ḥannībaʿl⁠/, “May the Lord (Baal) grace me”).

Hannibal m (proper noun, genitive singular Hannibals)

1. a male given name

• Annibal

From Punic 𐤇𐤍𐤁𐤏𐤋 (ḥnbʿl /⁠ḥannībaʿl⁠/, “May the Lord (Baal) grace me”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈhan.nɪ.baɫ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈan.ni.bal]

Hannibal m sg (genitive Hannibalis); third declension

1. A Carthaginian given name.
2. The Carthaginian general Hannibal Barca.

Third-declension noun, singular only.

• English: Hannibal
• Italian: Annibale
• Portuguese: Aníbal
• Spanish: Aníbal

• “Hannibal”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Hannibal”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Hannibal in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

From Latin Hannibal, from Punic 𐤇𐤍𐤁𐤏𐤋 (ḥnbʿl /⁠ḥannībaʿl⁠/, “May the Lord (Baal) grace me”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈxɑn.ni.bɑl/, [ˈhɑn.ni.bɑl]

Hannibal m

1. Hannibal, a Carthaginian general

Strong a-stem:

The name is also sometimes inflected as a weak noun:

Weak feminine (n-stem):

Learned borrowing from Latin Hannibal, from Punic 𐤇𐤍𐤁𐤏𐤋 (ḥnbʿl /⁠ḥannībaʿl⁠/).

• IPA^(key): /xanˈɲi.bal/

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• Rhymes: -ibal
• Syllabification: Han‧ni‧bal

Hannibal m pers

1. (historical, politics) Hannibal (Carthaginian general and statesman)

• Hannibal in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Hannibal m

1. alternative form of Aníbal