Ταρτησσός

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

Ταρτησός (Tartēsós)

Etymology

Uncertain; some scholars connect the name to the Hebrew city of תַּרְשִׁישׁ‎ ("Tarshish") or the Anatolian city of Ταρσός (Tarsós), among others. Pausanias wrote that the name was from an Iberian river. More at Tartessos.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tar.tɛːs.sós/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /tar.te̝sˈsos/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /tar.tisˈsos/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /tar.tisˈsos/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /tar.tiˈsos/

Proper noun

Ταρτησσός • (Tartēssós) f or m (genitive Ταρτησσοῦ); second declension

Tartessus; Tartessos

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ, ἡ Ταρτησσός; τοῦ, τῆς Ταρτησσοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ, ἡ Ταρτησσός ho, hē Tartēssós
Genitive	τοῦ, τῆς Ταρτησσοῦ toû, tês Tartēssoû
Dative	τῷ, τῇ Ταρτησσῷ tôi, têi Tartēssôi
Accusative	τὸν, τὴν Ταρτησσόν tòn, tḕn Tartēssón
Vocative	Ταρτησσέ Tartēssé
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

Ταρτήσσῐος (Tartḗssios)

Descendants

Catalan: Tartessos
Greek: Ταρτησσός (Tartissós)
Latin: Tartēssus
Portuguese: Tartessos
Spanish: Tartessos

References

“Ταρτησσός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,026
Ταρτησσός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Pausanias Description of Greece 6.XIX.3.
Cerisola, Fernando GONZÁLEZ DE CANALES (2014). "Tarshish-Tartessos, the Emporium Reached by Kolaios of Samos". Cahiers de l’Institut du Proche-Orient Ancien du Collège de France (CIPOA) II.