Tanais

See also: tañáis

English

Proper noun

Tanais

1. (archaic) The river Don, the fifth-longest in Europe, in modern Tula, Lipetsk, Voronezh, Volgograd and Rostov Oblasts, Russia.
2. An ancient city that, in antiquity, lay in the Don delta.

Anagrams

• Nastia

Latin

The Don River

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Τάναϊς (Tánaïs).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈta.na.is/, [ˈt̪änäɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈta.na.is/, [ˈt̪äːnäis]

Proper noun

Tanais m sg (genitive Tanais); third declension

1. Don (a river, the fifth-longest in Europe, in modern Tula, Lipetsk, Voronezh, Volgograd and Rostov Oblasts, Russia)
2. a male given name

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem), with locative, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Tanais
Genitive	Tanais
Dative	Tanaī
Accusative	Tanaem
Ablative	Tanae
Vocative	Tanais
Locative	Tanaī Tanae

Derived terms

• Tanaītae
• Tanaītis
• Tanaīticus

Descendants

• Translingual: Tanais

References

• “Tanais”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Tanais in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Tanais”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[1]
• “Tanais”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Tanais”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• “Tanais”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press