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say it: PYOO-nik
punic is an adjective and noun meaning "of or relating to or characteristic of ancient Carthage or its people or their language". It is pronounced /ˈpjunɪk/ — PYOO-nik. It carries 3 recorded senses.
of or relating to or characteristic of ancient Carthage or its people or their language
“the Punic Wars”
“Carthaginian peace”
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 Phoenician dialect of ancient Carthage
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for punic come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.