Tarraco

See also: Tárraco and Tàrraco

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

Proper noun

Tarracō f sg (genitive Tarracōnis); third declension

  1. Tarragona (city and Roman provincial capital in Spain)

Declension

Third-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Tarracō
Genitive Tarracōnis
Dative Tarracōnī
Accusative Tarracōnem
Ablative Tarracōne
Vocative Tarracō
Locative Tarracōnī
Tarracōne

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Navarro-Aragonese: Tarragona
  • Italian: Tarracona (earlier)
  • Old Catalan: Tarragona, Terragona
  • → 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.
  1. Ausonius Class. Urb. 9; cf. Mart. x. 104.
  2. STALUPPI G. (1997), Fondamenti di didattica della Geografia, Torino, UTET
  3. Los cinco libros primeros dela Coronica general de España, que recopilaua el maestro Florian de Ocampo
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