Τάνις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tá.nis/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈta.nis/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈta.nis/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈta.nis/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈta.nis/

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Proper noun

Τάνις • (Tánis) f (genitive Τάνεως); third declension

Tanis, a city in the delta of the Nile

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ Τᾰ́νῐς; τῆς Τᾰ́νεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Τᾰ́νῐς hē Tánis
Genitive	τῆς Τᾰ́νεως tês Táneōs
Dative	τῇ Τᾰ́νει têi Tánei
Accusative	τὴν Τᾰ́νῐν tḕn Tánin
Vocative	Τᾰ́νῐ Táni
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

Τανίτης (Tanítēs)

Descendants

Latin: Tanis

References

Τάνις in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Τάνις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette

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