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Latin
Etymology
The name Tarracina has been pointed out variously as pre-Indo-European origin (Ταρρακίνα (Tarrhakína) in ancient Greek), or as Etruscan (Tarchna or Tarchuna, the name of the Tarquinii family): in this view, it would precede the Volscian conquest.
Proper noun
Tarracīna f sg (genitive Tarracīnae); first declension
- Terracina (a town in Italy)
Declension
First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
References
- “Tarracina”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Tarracina in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.