The corpus record — Latin

Tartessus

Tartessus · f

a very ancient maritime town of Spain

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Where it lives

Punica 4 · 0.52/10k

What it meant

Tartessus — Lewis & Short

Tartessus (Tartēsus), or -os, i, f.,

I a very ancient maritime town of Spain, now El Rocadillo, near S. Roque, Mel. 2, 6, 9; Plin. 3, 1, 3, § 7; Sil. 3, 399; 5, 399.—Hence,

A Tartessĭus (Tartēsĭus), a, um, adj., of or belonging to Tartessus, Tartessian: litora, Ov. M. 14, 416: stagna, Sil. 10, 538: muraena, Varr. ap. Gell. 7, 16, 5.— Poet. for Spanish: tellus, Sil. 13, 673; 15, 5. —Subst.: Tartessĭi, ōrum, plur., the inhabitants of Tartessus, Plin. 7, 48, 49, § 154.—

B Tartessĭăcus (Tartēsĭăcus), a, um, adj., Tartessian: aequor, Sil. 6, 1: thyrsi, i. e. lettuce, Col. 10, 370.—Poet. for Spanish: harenae, Claud. in Ruf. 1, 101: Iberus, Sid. Carm. 5, 286.—

C Tartessis (Tartēsis), ĭdis, adj. f., Tartessian: lactuca, Col. 10, 192.

In the wild

Tartessos Silius Italicus, Punica 16.509
Tartessos Silius Italicus, Punica 5.399
Tartessos Silius Italicus, Punica 3.399
Tartessos Silius Italicus, Punica 16.465

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.