ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam

/[…]/ phrase

Letters

40 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam is aGermanphrase. It means: Im Übrigen bin ich der Meinung, dass Karthago zerstört werden muss. Pronounced […].

Key facts for ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam
PropertyValue
Headwordceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[…]
Letters40
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam is 40 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as […]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Im Übrigen bin ich der Meinung, dass Karthago zerstört werden muss.".

No misspelling variants are generated for ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam, spelled C-E-T-E-R-U-M- -C-E-N-S-E-O- -C-A-R-T-H-A-G-I-N-E-M- -E-S-S-E- -D-E-L-E-N-D-A-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Im Übrigen bin ich der Meinung, dass Karthago zerstört werden muss.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam"?
"ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam" is spelled C-E-T-E-R-U-M- -C-E-N-S-E-O- -C-A-R-T-H-A-G-I-N-E-M- -E-S-S-E- -D-E-L-E-N-D-A-M. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam" mean?
As a phrase, "ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam" means: Im Übrigen bin ich der Meinung, dass Karthago zerstört werden muss.
How do you pronounce "ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.