Tanais
See also: tañáis
English edit
Proper noun edit
Tanais
- (archaic) The river Don, the fifth-longest in Europe, in modern Tula, Lipetsk, Voronezh, Volgograd and Rostov Oblasts, Russia.
- An ancient city that, in antiquity, lay in the Don delta.
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Τάναϊς (Tánaïs).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈta.na.is/, [ˈt̪änäɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈta.na.is/, [ˈt̪äːnäis]
Proper noun edit
Tanais m sg (genitive Tanais); third declension
- Don (a river, the fifth-longest in Europe, in modern Tula, Lipetsk, Voronezh, Volgograd and Rostov Oblasts, Russia)
- a male given name
Declension edit
Third-declension noun (i-stem), with locative, singular only.
Case | Singular |
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Nominative | Tanais |
Genitive | Tanais |
Dative | Tanaī |
Accusative | Tanaem |
Ablative | Tanae |
Vocative | Tanais |
Locative | Tanaī Tanae |
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- Translingual: Tanais
References edit
- “Tanais”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Tanais in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “Tanais”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia[1]
- “Tanais”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “Tanais”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- “Tanais”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press