Ταρτησσός

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• Ταρτησός (Tartēsós)

Etymology

Uncertain; some scholars connect the name to the Hebrew city of תַּרְשִׁישׁ ("Tarshish") or the Anatolian city of Ταρσός (Tarsós), among others. Pausanias wrote that the name was from an Iberian river. More at Tartessos.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tar.tɛːs.sós/ → /tar.tisˈsos/ → /tar.tiˈsos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tar.tɛːs.sós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /tar.te̝sˈsos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /tar.tisˈsos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /tar.tisˈsos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /tar.tiˈsos/

Proper noun

Ταρτησσός • (Tartēssós) f or m (genitive Ταρτησσοῦ); second declension

1. Tartessus; Tartessos

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ, ἡ Ταρτησσός; τοῦ, τῆς Ταρτησσοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ, ἡ Ταρτησσός ho, hē Tartēssós
Genitive	τοῦ, τῆς Ταρτησσοῦ toû, tês Tartēssoû
Dative	τῷ, τῇ Ταρτησσῷ tôi, têi Tartēssôi
Accusative	τὸν, τὴν Ταρτησσόν tòn, tḕn Tartēssón
Vocative	Ταρτησσέ Tartēssé
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Ταρτήσσῐος (Tartḗssios)

Descendants

• Catalan: Tartessos
• Greek: Ταρτησσός (Tartissós)
• Latin: Tartēssus
• Portuguese: Tartessos
• Spanish: Tartessos

References

• “Ταρτησσός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,026
• Ταρτησσός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Pausanias Description of Greece 6.XIX.3.
• Cerisola, Fernando GONZÁLEZ DE CANALES (2014). "Tarshish-Tartessos, the Emporium Reached by Kolaios of Samos". Cahiers de l’Institut du Proche-Orient Ancien du Collège de France (CIPOA) II.