tabanus

== Latin == === Alternative forms === tabō === Etymology === Argued from onomastic witnesses to be Etruscan, but unknown. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [taˈbaː.nʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [taˈbaː.nus] === Noun === tabānus m (genitive tabānī); second declension gadfly, horsefly Synonyms: asīlus, oestrus ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== === References === Ernout, Alfred; Meillet, Antoine (1985), “tabanus”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 672 “tabanus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "tabanus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “tabanus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.