Tanagra

See also: tanagra

Translingual

Etymology

Learned borrowing from New Latin Tanagra, from Portuguese tangara, from Old Tupi tangara.

Proper noun

Tanagra f

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Thraupidae – synonymized with Tangara, some of the tanagers.

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈtanəɡɹə/

Proper noun

Tanagra

  1. A city in southeastern Viotia prefecture Greece.

Translations

Noun

Tanagra (countable and uncountable, plural Tanagras)

  1. (often attributive) A style of terracotta statuary from the 5th to 3rd centuries BCE.
    • 1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 1005:
      He advanced, touched the covers with his fingers as if to identify and greet the author of each, and then progressed towards the group of Tanagra figures in their glass case.

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Τάναγρα (Tánagra).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Tānagra f sg (genitive Tānagrae); first declension

  1. A town of Boeotia situated on a fertile plain upon the left bank of the Asopus

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Tānagra
Genitive Tānagrae
Dative Tānagrae
Accusative Tānagram
Ablative Tānagrā
Vocative Tānagra
Locative Tānagrae
  • Tānagraeus
  • Tānagricus

References

  • Tanagra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Tanagra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Tanagra”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
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