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English
Proper noun
Taprobane
- Alternative form of Taprobana
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Ταπροβάνη (Taprobánē).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Tāprobanē f sg (genitive Tāprobanēs); first declension
- the ancient name of Sri Lanka, an island of South Asia in the Indian Ocean
Declension
First-declension noun (Greek-type), singular only.
References
- “Taprobane”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Taprobane in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “Taprobane”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly