punic

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

PU'NIC, adjective [Latin punicus, pertaining to Carthage or its inhabitants, from Poeni, the Carthaginians.] Pertaining to the Carthaginians; faithless; treacherous; deceitful; as punic faith. PU'NIC, noun The ancient language of the Carthaginians, of which Plautus has left a specimen.
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