English
Neo-Punic
From neo- + Punic.
Proto-Indo-European *nu ‘now’
Proto-Indo-European *néwos ‘new’
Proto-Hellenic *néwos ‘new’
Ancient Greek νέος ‘young’
English neo-
Mycenaean Greek Mycenaean Greek form
Ancient Greek Φοῖνιξ ‘Carthaginian’
Latin Poenus ‘Carthaginian, a person from Carthage or its…’
Latin Pūnicus ‘Punic, Carthaginian’
English Punic
Today it means
adj Relating to the Punic language as it existed after the fall of Carthage in 146 BCE.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Neo-Punic