Tanagra

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Translingual

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from New Latin Tanagra, from Portuguese tangara, from Old Tupi tangara.

Proper noun

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Tanagra f

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Thraupidae – synonymized with Tangara, some of the tanagers.

English

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Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Tanagra

  1. A city in southeastern Viotia prefecture Greece.

Translations

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Noun

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Tanagra (countable and uncountable, plural Tanagras)

  1. (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

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Latin

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ancient Greek Τάναγρα (Tánagra).

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Tānagra f sg (genitive Tānagrae); first declension

  1. A town of Boeotia situated on a fertile plain upon the left bank of the Asopus

Declension

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First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Tānagra
Genitive Tānagrae
Dative Tānagrae
Accusative Tānagram
Ablative Tānagrā
Vocative Tānagra
Locative Tānagrae
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References

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  • 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