Tarraco
See also: Tárraco and Tàrraco
Latin
Alternative forms
- Tarracōn
Etymology
Uncertain. According to William Smith, possibly of Phoenician origin, from [script needed] (tarchon, “citadel, high rock”), referring to the location above the sea.[1] However, compare the names Tarquinia and Tarracina.[2]
Catalan folk etymology derived the name from Tarraho, son of the biblical figure Tubal. Strabo and Megasthenes linked the name to Tearcon, a pharaoh who had campaigned in Spain.[3]
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈtar.ra.koː/, [ˈt̪ärːäkoː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈtar.ra.ko/, [ˈt̪ärːäko]
Proper noun
Tarracō f sg (genitive Tarracōnis); third declension
- Tarragona (city and Roman provincial capital in Spain)
Declension
Third-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
| Case | Singular |
|---|---|
| Nominative | Tarracō |
| Genitive | Tarracōnis |
| Dative | Tarracōnī |
| Accusative | Tarracōnem |
| Ablative | Tarracōne |
| Vocative | Tarracō |
| Locative | Tarracōnī Tarracōne |
Derived terms
- Hispānia Tarracōnēnsis
- Tarracēnsēs, Tarragēnsēs
- Tarracōnēnsis
Descendants
- → Catalan: Tàrraco
- → Portuguese: Tárraco
- → Spanish: Tárraco
- Vulgar Latin: Tarracōna
- Italian: Tarragona
- Navarro-Aragonese: Tarragona
- Aragonese: Tarragona
- Old Catalan: Tarragona, Terragona
- Catalan: Tarragona
References
- “Tarraco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Tarraco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Ausonius Class. Urb. 9; cf. Mart. x. 104.
- STALUPPI G. (1997), Fondamenti di didattica della Geografia, Torino, UTET
- Los cinco libros primeros dela Coronica general de España, que recopilaua el maestro Florian de Ocampo