Tarraco

== Latin == === Alternative forms === Tarracōn === Etymology === Uncertain. According to William Smith, possibly of Phoenician origin, from [script needed] (tarchon, “citadel, high rock”), referring to the location above the sea. However, compare the names Tarquinia and Tarracina. Catalan folk etymology derived the name from Tarraho, son of the biblical figure Tubal. Strabo and Megasthenes linked the name to Tearcon, a pharaoh who had campaigned in Spain. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈtar.ra.koː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈtar.ra.ko] === Proper noun === Tarracō f sg (genitive Tarracōnis); third declension Tarragona (city and Roman provincial capital in Spain) ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun, with locative, singular only. ==== Derived terms ==== Hispānia Tarracōnēnsis Tarracēnsēs, Tarragēnsēs Tarracōnēnsis ==== Descendants ==== Old Navarro-Aragonese: Tarragona Aragonese: Tarragona → Spanish: Tarragona Italian: Tarracona (earlier) Italian: Tarragona Old Catalan: Tarragona, Terragona Catalan: Tarragona → Catalan: Tàrraco → Portuguese: Tárraco Sicilian: Tarraguna → Spanish: Tárraco === References === “Tarraco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “Tarraco”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.