Tarsus

From Latin Tarsus, from Ancient Greek Ταρσός (Tarsós), ultimately from Hittite Tarsa.

Tarsus

1. A city in Mersin province in southeastern Turkey, an important center of Cilicia since antiquity.

• (historical names): Tarsa, Tarsos, Antioch, Antioch on the Cydnus, Juliopolis

• Asturs, Rastus, Straus, Surats, Sūtras, surats, sutras, sūtras, tussar

Tarsus m (strong, genitive Tarsus, plural Tarsen)

1. (zoology) tarsus

• Tarsenglied
  • 1912, Theodor Becker, “Chloropidae”, in Annales historico-naturales Musei nationalis hungarici‎, volume 10, Budapest, page 28:

    Beine ganz rotgelb, letzte Tarsenglieder etwas braun.

    Legs entirely reddish-yellow, last tarsomeres [literally tarsi segments] brownish.

From Ancient Greek Ταρσός (Tarsós).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtar.sus/, [ˈt̪ärs̠ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtar.sus/, [ˈt̪ärsus]

Tarsus f sg (genitive Tarsī); second declension

1. Tarsus, Cilicia

Second-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

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

From Ottoman Turkish طرسوس (Tarsus), from Byzantine Greek Ταρσός (Tarsós).

• IPA^(key): /tʰaɾ.sus/

Tarsus

1. A town and district of Mersin, Turkey

• Tarsuslu