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Latin
Etymology
Argued from onomastic witnesses to be Etruscan, but unknown.
Pronunciation
Noun
tabānus m (genitive tabānī); second declension
- gadfly, horsefly
- Synonyms: asīlus, oestrus
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “tabanus”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 672
- “tabanus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- tabanus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- tabanus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.