Tiberis

Latin

Alternative forms

• Tiber

Etymology

Two possibilities are:

• From Proto-Italic *Tiβeris. Cognate with Faliscan *Tiferis (cf. Etruscan praenomen Thefarie < Faliscan *Tiferios '(He) from the Tiber', equivalent to Latin Tiberius).
• From Celtic *dubros (“water”). See Dover.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈti.be.ris/, [ˈt̪ɪbɛrɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈti.be.ris/, [ˈt̪iːberis]

Proper noun

Tiberis m sg (genitive Tiberis); third declension

1. The Tiber River, which flows through Rome
2. genitive singular of Tiberis
3. vocative singular of Tiberis

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem, accusative singular in -im or -in, ablative singular in -ī), singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Tiberis
Genitive	Tiberis
Dative	Tiberī
Accusative	Tiberim Tiberin
Ablative	Tiberī
Vocative	Tiberis

Derived terms

• Tiberius (Ti.)
• tiberius (“of the Tiber”)

Descendants

• English: Tiber
• Hungarian: Tevere
• Italian: Tevere
• Polish: Tyber

References

• “Tiberis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Tiberis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.