Tyras

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Τύρας (Túras), from Scythian tūra (“quick, rapid, strong”), from an Indo-Iranian root shared with Sanskrit तुर (tura, “quick, strong”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *teur (“strong”). Compare the Gallic settlement Autricum.

Also spelled as Τύρις (Túris) and survived in Turkish as Turla.

View of the river

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈty.raːs/, [ˈt̪ʏräːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈti.ras/, [ˈt̪iːräs]

Tyrās m sg (genitive Tyrae); first declension

1. A river in Sarmatia, the Dniester

First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ās), singular only.

• “Tyras”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Tyras in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Tyras”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• Herod. iv. 11, 47, 82; Scylax, p. 29; Strab. i. p. 14; Mela, ii. 1, etc.; also Schaffarik, Slav. Alterth. i. p. 505.
• Archaeology and Language I: Theoretical and Methodological Orientations (2003), p. 297

Tyras

1. genitive of Tyra

• styra, yrast, ystar