The corpus record — Latin

Tana

Tana · m

a river of Numidia

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What it meant

1. Tana — Lewis & Short

Tana or Tanas, ae, m.,

I a river of Numidia, between Lares and Capsa, Sall. J. 90 fin.

2. Tўăna — Lewis & Short

Tўăna, ōrum, n., = *tu/ana,

I a city in Cappadocia, the birthplace of the philosopher Apollonius, now Kiz Hissar, Plin. 6, 3, 3, § 8; Amm. 23, 6, 19.—Hence, Tўă-nēĭus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Tyana: incola, Ov. M. 8, 719.—Collat. form Tўănaeus, a, um (late Lat.), Amm. 21, 14, 5.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.