Pathissus

• Pathiscus

Perhaps from Thracian-Dacian *patis (“water”); compare Sanskrit पाथस् (pāthas, “water”). Both of these words could be related to Ancient Greek πόντος (póntos, “the sea”), in which case ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *póntoh₁s.^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [paˈtʰɪs.sʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [paˈt̪is.sus]

Pathissus m sg (genitive Pathissī); second declension

1. A river of Dacia and tributary river of the Danube, probably the Tisza

Second-declension noun, singular only.

• “Pathiscus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• Pathissus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.