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Translingual
Etymology
Learned borrowing from New Latin Tanagra, from Portuguese tangara, from Old Tupi tangara.
Proper noun
Tanagra f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Thraupidae – synonymized with Tangara, some of the tanagers.
English
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Tanagra
- A city in southeastern Viotia prefecture Greece.
Translations
Noun
Tanagra (countable and uncountable, plural Tanagras)
- (often attributive) A style of terracotta statuary from the 5th to 3rd centuries BCE.
1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 1005:He advanced, touched the covers with his fingers as if to identify and greet the author of each, and then progressed towards the group of Tanagra figures in their glass case.
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Τάναγρα (Tánagra).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Tānagra f sg (genitive Tānagrae); first declension
- A town of Boeotia situated on a fertile plain upon the left bank of the Asopus
Declension
First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
References
- “Tanagra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Tanagra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “Tanagra”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly