1. tăsis — Lewis & Short
tăsis, is, f., = ta/sis,
I a straining, tension, exertion:
vocis = intentio,Mart. Cap. 9, 939.
The corpus record — Latin
tăsis
tăsis · f
a straining
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What it meant
2. tasis — Walde–Hofmann
tasis, -is „Anstrengung, Spannung“ (Mart. Cap.): entl. aus gr. TdGic ds. tat „he!“ (Plaut., Petron 62, 9, s. Thomas Stud. 47), tatae ironisch bewundernd (Plt, aus gr. *tarai, Verf. Umgangsspr. 24): zu ai. tät ,krach!", lit. zat. „ach, was doch nicht!* (Schwentner 32); vgl. attat (Umgangsspr. a. O.). — Abzulehnen Stowasser WSt. 11, 326 ff. (aus (at)tat(e) als Imperat. = *attendite). — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. tasis, p. 1558]
Where it came from
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