Tanagra

See also: tanagra

Translingual

Etymology

Learned borrowing from New Latin Tanagra, from Portuguese tangara, from Old Tupi tangara.

Proper noun

Tanagra f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Thraupidae – synonymized with Tangara, some of the tanagers.

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtanəɡɹə/

Proper noun

Tanagra

1. A city in southeastern Viotia prefecture Greece.

Translations

city

• Greek: Τανάγρα (el) (Tanágra)

Noun

Tanagra (countable and uncountable, plural Tanagras)

1. (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

• Granata

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Τάναγρα (Tánagra).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈtaː.na.ɡra/, [ˈt̪äːnäɡrä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈta.na.ɡra/, [ˈt̪äːnäɡrä]

Proper noun

Tānagra f sg (genitive Tānagrae); first declension

1. A town of Boeotia situated on a fertile plain upon the left bank of the Asopus

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Tānagra
Genitive	Tānagrae
Dative	Tānagrae
Accusative	Tānagram
Ablative	Tānagrā
Vocative	Tānagra
Locative	Tānagrae

Related terms

• Tānagraeus
• Tānagricus

References

• “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