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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Ταίναρος (Taínaros).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Taenarus m sg (genitive Taenarī); second declension
- A promontory in Laconia, modern Greece, the southernmost point of Peloponnesus
Declension
Second-declension noun, singular only.
References
- “Taenarus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Taenarum”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- Taenarum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.