Tergeste

Usually assumed to be connected with Proto-Slavic *tъrgъ, Lithuanian tur̃gus, Latvian tirgus, Swedish torg (“market, marketplace”). Ultimately, from a Balkan substrate, compare Romanian târg (“market”), Albanian tregtar (“merchant”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [tɛrˈɡɛs.tɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [t̪erˈd͡ʒɛs.t̪e]

Tergeste n sg (genitive Tergestis); third declension

1. A city of Venetia situated on the shore of the Adriatic Sea, now Trieste

Third-declension noun (neuter, parisyllabic non-i-stem), with locative, singular only.

• Tergestīnus

• Tergeste in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Tergeste”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly