Tanagra
See also: tanagra
Translingual
Etymology
Learned borrowing from New Latin Tanagra, from Portuguese tangara, from Old Tupi tangara.
Proper noun
Tanagra f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Thraupidae – synonymized with Tangara, some of the tanagers.
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈtanəɡɹə/
Proper noun
Tanagra
- A city in southeastern Viotia prefecture Greece.
Translations
Noun
Tanagra (countable and uncountable, plural Tanagras)
- (often attributive) A style of terracotta statuary from the 5th to 3rd centuries BCE.
- 1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 1005:
- He advanced, touched the covers with his fingers as if to identify and greet the author of each, and then progressed towards the group of Tanagra figures in their glass case.
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Τάναγρα (Tánagra).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈtaː.na.ɡra]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈt̪aː.na.ɡra]
Proper noun
Tānagra f sg (genitive Tānagrae); first declension
Declension
First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | Tānagra |
| genitive | Tānagrae |
| dative | Tānagrae |
| accusative | Tānagram |
| ablative | Tānagrā |
| vocative | Tānagra |
| locative | Tānagrae |
Related terms
- Tānagraeus
- Tānagricus
References
- “Tanagra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Tanagra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “Tanagra”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly