Tarentum

From Latin Tarentum, from Ancient Greek Τάρᾱς (Tárās), of uncertain origin but probably Pre-Greek and related to Illyrian *darandos (“oak”). Doublet of Taras and Taranto.

Tarentum

1. (historical) Former name of Taranto: a city in Italy.

• Taras

From Ancient Greek Τάρᾱς (Tárās), of uncertain origin but probably Pre-Greek and related to Illyrian *darandos (“oak”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [taˈrɛn.tũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [t̪aˈrɛn̪.t̪um]

Tarentum n sg (genitive Tarentī); second declension

1. Taranto (a city in Italy)

Second-declension noun (neuter), with locative, singular only.

• Taras

• bellum Tarentinum (“Pyrrhic War”)

• → English: Tarentum
• Italian: Taranto
  • → English: Taranto
• Sicilian: Tàrantu, Tàrintu
• ⇒ Translingual: Tarentula

• “Tarentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Tarentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.