Tarraco
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
Uncertain. According to William Smith, possibly of Phoenician origin, from [script needed] (tarchon, “citadel, high rock”), referring to the location above the sea.[1] However, compare the names Tarquinia and Tarracina.[2]
Catalan folk etymology derived the name from Tarraho, son of the biblical figure Tubal. Strabo and Megasthenes linked the name to Tearcon, a pharaoh who had campaigned in Spain.[3]
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈtar.ra.koː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈt̪ar.ra.ko]
Proper noun
Tarracō f sg (genitive Tarracōnis); third declension
- Tarragona (city and Roman provincial capital in Spain)
Declension
Third-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | Tarracō |
| genitive | Tarracōnis |
| dative | Tarracōnī |
| accusative | Tarracōnem |
| ablative | Tarracōne |
| vocative | Tarracō |
| locative | Tarracōnī Tarracōne |
Derived terms
- Hispānia Tarracōnēnsis
- Tarracēnsēs, Tarragēnsēs
- Tarracōnēnsis
Descendants
- Old Navarro-Aragonese: Tarragona
- Italian: Tarracona (earlier)
- Italian: Tarragona
- Old Catalan: Tarragona, Terragona
- Catalan: Tarragona
- → Catalan: Tàrraco
- → Portuguese: Tárraco
- Sicilian: Tarraguna
- → Spanish: Tárraco
References
- “Tarraco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Tarraco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ Ausonius Class. Urb. 9; cf. Mart. x. 104.
- ^ STALUPPI G. (1997), Fondamenti di didattica della Geografia, Torino, UTET
- ^ Los cinco libros primeros dela Coronica general de España, que recopilaua el maestro Florian de Ocampo