Τάνις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Borrowing from Egyptian (ḏꜥnt).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.nis/ → /ˈta.nis/

• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈta.nis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈta.nis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈta.nis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈta.nis/

Proper noun

Τάνις • (Tánis) f (genitive Τάνεως); third declension

1. Tanis, a city in the delta of the Nile

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ Τᾰ́νῐς; τῆς Τᾰ́νεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Τᾰ́νῐς hē Tánis
Genitive	τῆς Τᾰ́νεως tês Táneōs
Dative	τῇ Τᾰ́νει têi Tánei
Accusative	τὴν Τᾰ́νῐν tḕn Tánin
Vocative	Τᾰ́νῐ Táni
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Τανίτης (Tanítēs)

Descendants

• → Latin: Tanis

Further reading

• “Τάνις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Τάνις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette