Tanais

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See also: tañáis

English

Proper noun

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Tanais

  1. (archaic) The river Don, the fifth-longest in Europe, in modern Tula, Lipetsk, Voronezh, Volgograd and Rostov Oblasts, Russia.
  2. An ancient city that, in antiquity, lay in the Don delta.

Anagrams

Latin

The Don River

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Τάναϊς (Tánaïs).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Tanais m sg (genitive Tanais); third declension

  1. Don (a river, the fifth-longest in Europe, in modern Tula, Lipetsk, Voronezh, Volgograd and Rostov Oblasts, Russia)
  2. a male given name

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem, accusative singular in -im or -in, ablative singular in ), singular only.

singular
nominative Tanais
genitive Tanais
dative Tanaī
accusative Tanaim
Tanain
ablative Tanaī
vocative Tanais

Derived terms

Descendants

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