Tartessus

English

Proper noun

Tartessus

1. Alternative form of Tartessos

Latin

Alternative forms

• Tartēsus

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ταρτησσός (Tartēssós).

Proper noun

Tartēssus m sg (genitive Tartēssī); second declension

1. An ancient city at the mouth of the Baetis

Declension

Second-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Tartēssus
Genitive	Tartēssī
Dative	Tartēssō
Accusative	Tartēssum
Ablative	Tartēssō
Vocative	Tartēsse
Locative	Tartēssī

Derived terms

• Tartēssius
• Tartēssiacus

References

• “Tartessus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Tartessus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Tartessus”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[1]
• “Tartessus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Tartessus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly