The corpus record — Latin

Tanais

Tanais · m

The river Tanais

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Where it lives

Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 7.24/10k
de Bello Gothico 2 · 4.96/10k
Mosella 1 · 3.08/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.52/10k
Historiae Alexandri Magni 18 · 2.43/10k
Carmina 3 · 2.26/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.8/10k
In Rufinum 1 · 1.75/10k
Troades 1 · 1.47/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
Phaedra 1 · 1.41/10k
Carmina 3 · 1.34/10k

Densest 12 of 33 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Tănăis — Lewis & Short

Tănăis, is, m., = *ta/nai+s.

I The river Tanais, now the Don, Mel. 1, 1, 6; 1, 2, 1; 1, 2, 6 al.; Plin. 4, 12, 24, § 78; 6, 7, 7, § 19; Hor. C. 3, 10, 1; 3, 29, 28; 4, 15, 24 et saep.: Tanaimque nivalem, Verg. G. 4, 517; Liv. 38, 38.—Hence,

1 Tănăītae, ārum, m., the inhabitants of the country near the Don, Plin. 6, 7, 7, § 22; Amm. 31, 3, 1.—

2 Tă-năītis, ĭdis, f., she that lives by the Don, i. e. an Amazon, Sen. Hippol. 399.—

b A river in Numidia, Sall. J. 90, 2.—

3 Tă-năītĭcus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to the Don: potor Scythicae undae, Sid. Carm. 5, 479: crusta, id. ib. 11, 96.—

II A proper name of a man, Verg. A. 12, 513; Hor. S. 1, 1, 105.

In the wild

Tanain Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni 7.6.25
Tanais Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 5.282
Tanais Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 2.243
Tanain Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 2.108.p2
Tanain Horace, Satyrarum libri 1.1.105
Tanais Seneca, Hercules Oetaeus 1

6 of 76 attestations shown.

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.