Taurica

• Taurida
• Tauris
• Tavria

From Latin Taurica, from Ancient Greek Ταυρῐκή (Taurĭkḗ).

Taurica

2. (historical) An ancient geographic region and peninsula, the name used by the Greeks and Romans for the modern Crimean Peninsula in Eastern Europe, internationally recognized as part of Ukraine but occupied by Russia.

   Synonym: Tauric Chersonese

• auratic

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• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtau̯.rɪ.ka]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt̪aːu̯.ri.ka]

Taurica f sg (genitive Tauricae); first declension

1. (historical) Taurica, the Tauric Chersonese (an ancient geographic region and peninsula, the name used by the Greeks and Romans for the modern Crimean Peninsula in Eastern Europe, internationally recognized as part of Ukraine but occupied by Russia)
   • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 4.91:

     Sarmatiae, Scythiae, Tauricae omnisque a Borysthene amne tractus longitudo DCCCCLXXX, latitudo DCCXVI a M. Agrippa tradita est.

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First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• Taurĭcus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,546/3: “Taurĭcus, a, um, Taurique, de la Tauride: Ov. P. 1, 2, 80; Plin. 4, 85 ‖ -rĭca, æ, f., la Chersonèse Taurique: Plin. 4, 91.”