Tagus

English

Etymology

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈteɪ.ɡəs/

Proper noun

Tagus

A major river in Spain and Portugal, the longest in Iberia.

Translations

Iberian river

Catalan: Tejo
Dutch: Taag
Esperanto: Taĵo, Taĥo (archaic)
Finnish: Tajo
French: Tage (fr) m
German: Tajo (de), Tejo
Greek: Τάγος (el) m (Tágos)
Italian: Tago m
Latin: Tagus m
Polish: Tag (pl) m
Portuguese: Tejo m
Spanish: Tajo

Anagrams

Gauts, Guats, agust, tsuga

Latin

Etymology

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Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈta.ɡus/, [ˈt̪äɡʊs̠]

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈta.ɡus/, [ˈt̪äːɡus]

The river's estuary, in Lisbon

Proper noun

Tagus m sg (genitive Tagī); second declension

Tagus (a river in Lusitania)

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Tagus
Genitive	Tagī
Dative	Tagō
Accusative	Tagum
Ablative	Tagō
Vocative	Tage

Descendants

Portuguese: Tejo
Spanish: Tajo
→ English: Tagus

References

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

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