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Latin
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Proper noun
Tantasius m sg (genitive Tantasiī or Tantasī); second declension
- a Roman nomen gentile, gens or "family name" famously held by:
- Lucius Tantasius, a Roman man slained by Catilina
Declension
Second-declension noun, singular only.
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References
- “L. Tantasius”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray