Tarracina

Latin

Alternative forms

• Terracīna

Etymology

The name Tarracina has been pointed out variously as pre-Indo-European origin (Ταρρακίνα (Tarrhakína) in ancient Greek), or as Etruscan (Tarchna or Tarchuna, the name of the Tarquinii family): in this view, it would precede the Volscian conquest.

Proper noun

Tarracīna f sg (genitive Tarracīnae); first declension

1. Terracina (a town in Italy)

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Tarracīna
genitive	Tarracīnae
dative	Tarracīnae
accusative	Tarracīnam
ablative	Tarracīnā
vocative	Tarracīna
locative	Tarracīnae

References

• “Tarracina”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Tarracina in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.