Tanagra
See also: tanagra
Translingual
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from New Latin Tanagra, from Portuguese tangara, from Old Tupi tangara.
Proper noun
editTanagra f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Thraupidae – synonymized with Tangara, some of the tanagers.
English
editPronunciation
editProper noun
editTanagra
Translations
editNoun
editTanagra (countable and uncountable, plural Tanagras)
- (often attributive) A style of terracotta statuary from the 5th to 3rd centuries BCE.
- 1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 1005:
- He advanced, touched the covers with his fingers as if to identify and greet the author of each, and then progressed towards the group of Tanagra figures in their glass case.
Anagrams
editLatin
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Ancient Greek Τάναγρα (Tánagra).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈtaː.na.ɡra/, [ˈt̪äːnäɡrä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈta.na.ɡra/, [ˈt̪äːnäɡrä]
Proper noun
editTānagra f sg (genitive Tānagrae); first declension
Declension
editFirst-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
Case | Singular |
---|---|
Nominative | Tānagra |
Genitive | Tānagrae |
Dative | Tānagrae |
Accusative | Tānagram |
Ablative | Tānagrā |
Vocative | Tānagra |
Locative | Tānagrae |
Related terms
editReferences
edit- “Tanagra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Tanagra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “Tanagra”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
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