Tagus

English

Etymology

Latin Tagus

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈteɪ.ɡəs/

Proper noun

Tagus

1. A major river in Spain and Portugal, the longest in Iberia.

Translations

Iberian river

• Catalan: Tejo
• Dutch: Taag
• Esperanto: Taĵo, Taĥo (archaic)
• Finnish: Tajo
• French: Tage (fr) m
• German: Tajo (de), Tejo
• Greek: Τάγος (el) m (Tágos)
• Italian: Tago m
• Latin: Tagus m
• Polish: Tag (pl) m
• Portuguese: Tejo m
• Spanish: Tajo

Anagrams

• Gauts, Guats, agust, tsuga

Latin

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈta.ɡus/, [ˈt̪äɡʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈta.ɡus/, [ˈt̪äːɡus]

The river's estuary, in Lisbon

Proper noun

Tagus m sg (genitive Tagī); second declension

1. Tagus (a river in Lusitania)

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Tagus
Genitive	Tagī
Dative	Tagō
Accusative	Tagum
Ablative	Tagō
Vocative	Tage

Descendants

• Portuguese: Tejo
• Spanish: Tajo
• → English: Tagus

References

• “Tagus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Tagus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.