Tiberis

== Latin == === Etymology === A pre-Roman name, suggested origins include: From Proto-Italic *Tiβeris. Cognate with Faliscan *Tiferis (cf. Etruscan praenomen Thefarie < Faliscan *Tiferios (“(He) from the Tiber”), equivalent to Latin Tiberius). *Tiβeris and *Tiferis may come from the same root as temerō, from Proto-Italic *temezi (“in darkness, blindly”), a fossilised locative form of Proto-Indo-European *témHos (“darkness”), from *temH- (“dark”). See Thames. From Celtic *dubros (“water”), or otherwise from its same ultimate source, Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“deep, dark, hazy”). See Dover. From Proto-Indo-European *teh₂- (“to flow, to melt”), found in hydronyms. This could correspond to the Umbrian counterpart Tifernum Tiberinum with the eastern Italic sound shift bh > f. More at Tiber. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈtɪ.bɛ.rɪs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈtiː.be.ris] === Proper noun === Tiberis m sg (genitive Tiberis); third declension The Tiber River, which flows through Rome ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun (i-stem, accusative singular in -im or -in, ablative singular in -ī), singular only. ==== Derived terms ==== Tiberius (Ti.) tiberius (“of the Tiber”) ==== Descendants ==== English: Tiber → German: Tiber French: Tibre Hungarian: Tevere Italian: Tevere Polish: Tyber Sicilian: Tìviri ==== References ==== “Tiberis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “Tiberis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.