tigris

From Latin tigris, from Ancient Greek τίγρις (tígris, “tiger”), probably of Iranian origin.

• IPA^(key): [ˈtiɡriʃ]

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• Hyphenation: tig‧ris
• Rhymes: -iʃ

tigris (plural tigrisek)

1. tiger (Panthera tigris, a large predatory mammal of the cat family)

• tigris in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Ultimately from Latin tigris.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtiɡ.ris/
• Hyphenation: tig‧ris

tigris m animal (female equivalent tigrisëca)

1. tiger (Panthera tigris)

• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “tigris”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎

From Ancient Greek τίγρις (tígris, “tiger”), probably of Iranian origin.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈti.ɡris/, [ˈt̪ɪɡrɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈti.ɡris/, [ˈt̪iːɡris]

tigris m (genitive tigris or tigridis); third declension

1. tiger
2. (poetic) tigress
3. a tiger skin

Third-declension noun (i-stem, accusative singular in -im, -in or -em, ablative singular in -ī or imparisyllabic non-i-stem; two different stems).

• Tigris

• “tigris”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tigris”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tigris in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• tigris in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “tigris”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎
• “tigris”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “tigris”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly