Tanais
See also: tañáis
English
Proper noun
Tanais
- (archaic) (geography) The river Don, the fifth-longest in Europe, in modern Tula Oblast, Lipetsk Oblast, Voronezh Oblast, Volgograd Oblast and Rostov Oblast, Russia.
- (geography) A city that, in antiquity, lay in the Don delta.
Anagrams
- Nastia
Latin
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The Don River
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Τάναϊς (Tánaïs).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈta.na.is/, [ˈt̪änäɪs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈta.na.is/, [ˈt̪äːnäis]
Proper noun
Tanais m sg (genitive Tanais); third declension
- (geography) Don (a river, the fifth-longest in Europe, in modern Tula Oblast, Lipetsk Oblast, Voronezh Oblast, Volgograd Oblast and Rostov Oblast, Russia)
- A proper name for men.
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem), with locative, singular only.
| Case | Singular |
|---|---|
| Nominative | Tanais |
| Genitive | Tanais |
| Dative | Tanaī |
| Accusative | Tanaem |
| Ablative | Tanae |
| Vocative | Tanais |
| Locative | Tanaī Tanae |
Derived terms
- Tanaītae
- Tanaītis
- Tanaīticus
Descendants
- Translingual: Tanais
References
- “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
- “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