English

Proper noun

Tanais

1. An early name for the river Don
2. A city that, in antiquity, lay in the Don delta.

Latin

The Don River

Etymology

Borrowing from Ancient Greek Τάναϊς ‎(Tánaïs).

Noun

Tanais m ‎(genitive Tanais); third declension

1. The river Don
2. A proper name for men

Inflection

Third declension i-stem, with locative.

Derived terms

• Tanaītae
• Tanaītis
• Tanaīticus

References

• Tanais in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “Tanais”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Tanais in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia
• 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