Tanais

== English == === Proper noun === Tanais (archaic) The river Don, the fifth-longest in Europe, in modern Tula, Lipetsk, Voronezh, Volgograd and Rostov Oblasts, Russia. An ancient city that, in antiquity, lay in the Don delta. === Anagrams === Nastia == Latin == === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek Τάναϊς (Tánaïs). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈta.na.ɪs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈtaː.na.is] === Proper noun === Tanais m sg (genitive Tanais); third declension Don (a river, the fifth-longest in Europe, in modern Tula, Lipetsk, Voronezh, Volgograd and Rostov Oblasts, Russia) a male given name ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun (i-stem, accusative singular in -im or -in, ablative singular in -ī), singular only. ==== Derived terms ==== Tanaītae Tanaītis Tanaīticus ==== Descendants ==== Translingual: Tanais === References === “Tanais”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “Tanais”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “Tanais”, in The Perseus Project (1999), Perseus Encyclopedia‎[1] “Tanais”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “Tanais”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly “Tanais”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press