Ταρτησσός
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[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- Ταρτησός (Tartēsós)
Etymology
[edit]Uncertain; some scholars connect the name to the Hebrew city of תַּרְשִׁישׁ ("Tarshish") or the Anatolian city of Ταρσός (Tarsós), among others. Pausanias wrote that the name was from an Iberian river. More at Tartessos.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tar.tɛːs.sós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /tar.te̝sˈsos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /tar.tisˈsos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /tar.tisˈsos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /tar.tiˈsos/
Proper noun
[edit]Ταρτησσός • (Tartēssós) f or m (genitive Ταρτησσοῦ); second declension
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ, ἡ Ταρτησσός ho, hē Tartēssós | ||||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ, τῆς Ταρτησσοῦ toû, tês Tartēssoû | ||||||||||||
Dative | τῷ, τῇ Ταρτησσῷ tôi, têi Tartēssôi | ||||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν, τὴν Ταρτησσόν tòn, tḕn Tartēssón | ||||||||||||
Vocative | Ταρτησσέ Tartēssé | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
[edit]- Ταρτήσσῐος (Tartḗssios)
Descendants
[edit]- Catalan: Tartessos
- Greek: Ταρτησσός (Tartissós)
- Latin: Tartēssus
- Portuguese: Tartessos
- Spanish: Tartessos
References
[edit]- “Ταρτησσός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,026
- Ταρτησσός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Pausanias Description of Greece 6.XIX.3.
- Cerisola, Fernando GONZÁLEZ DE CANALES (2014). "Tarshish-Tartessos, the Emporium Reached by Kolaios of Samos". Cahiers de l’Institut du Proche-Orient Ancien du Collège de France (CIPOA) II.
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