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Latin
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Proper noun
Tastris f sg (genitive Tastris); third declension
- A promontory in Cimbria, likely the same as Skagen in modern Denmark
1906, Pliny the Elder, edited by Karl Friedrich Theodor Mayhoff, Naturalis Historia, page 4.39:Promunturium Cimbrorum excurrens in maria longe paeninsulam efficit, quae Tastris appellatur.- The Cimbrian promontory projects a long way into the sea, forming a peninsula called Tastris.
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem), singular only.
References
- Tastris in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.