Tanais

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.

• Nastia

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Τάναϊς (Tánaïs).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈta.na.ɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt̪aː.na.is]

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

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

• Tanaītae
• Tanaītis
• Tanaīticus

• Translingual: Tanais

• “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