Tyras

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Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Τύρας (Túras), from Scythian tūra (“quick, rapid, strong”), from an Indo-Iranian root shared with Sanskrit तुर (tura, “quick, strong”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *teur (“strong”). Compare the Gallic settlement Autricum.

Also spelled as Τύρις (Túris) and survived in Turkish as Turla.

View of the river

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Tyrās m sg (genitive Tyrae); first declension

  1. A river in Sarmatia, the Dniester

Declension

First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ās), singular only.

singular
nominative Tyrās
genitive Tyrae
dative Tyrae
accusative Tyrān
ablative Tyrā
vocative Tyrā

References

  • “Tyras”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Tyras in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “Tyras”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
  • Herod. iv. 11, 47, 82; Scylax, p. 29; Strab. i. p. 14; Mela, ii. 1, etc.; also Schaffarik, Slav. Alterth. i. p. 505.
  • Archaeology and Language I: Theoretical and Methodological Orientations (2003), p. 297

Swedish

Proper noun

Tyras

  1. genitive of Tyra

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