The corpus record — Latin

Taras

Taras · m

A son of Neptune

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Where it lives

Argonautica 1 · 0.27/10k
Pharsalia 1 · 0.2/10k

What it meant

Tăras — Lewis & Short

Tăras, antis, m., = *ta/ras.

I A son of Neptune, and founder of the city of Tarentum, Stat. S. 1, 1, 103.—

II The city of Tarentum, Luc. 5, 376.

In the wild

Taras Lucan, Pharsalia 5.376
Taras Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 6.102

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.