Tagus

English

Etymology

Derived from Latin Tagus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈteɪ.ɡəs/
• Rhymes: -eɪɡəs

Proper noun

Tagus

1. A major river in Spain and Portugal, the longest in Iberia.

Translations

Iberian river

• Arabic: تاجُه m (tājuh)
• Armenian: Տախո (Taxo)
• Azerbaijani: Taxo
• Basque: Tajo
• Belarusian: Та́ха f (Táxa)
• Bulgarian: Та́хо n (Táho)
• Catalan: Tejo m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 塔霍河 (zh) (Tǎhuò hé)

• Czech: Tajo (cs) n
• Danish: Tajo
• Dutch: Taag (nl) m
• Esperanto: Taĵo, Taĥo (archaic)
• Estonian: Tejo
• Finnish: Tajo
• French: Tage (fr) m
• Galician: Texo
• Georgian: ტახო (ṭaxo)
• German: Tajo (de) m, Tejo
• Greek: Τάγος (el) m (Tágos)
• Hebrew: טחו m (taho)
• Hindi: टेगस m (ṭegas)
• Hungarian: Tajo (hu)
• Italian: Tago m
• Japanese: タホ川 (Taho-gawa)
• Korean: 타구스강 (taguseugang)
• Latin: Tagus m
• Latvian: Težu m
• Lithuanian: Tachas m
• Macedonian: Тахо m (Taho)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Tajo

  Nynorsk: Tajo

• Persian: تاگوس (tagus)
• Polish: Tag (pl) m
• Portuguese: Tejo m
• Romanian: Tajo m
• Russian: Та́хо (ru) f (Táxo)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Тахо m

  Roman: Tajo m

• Slovak: Tajo n
• Slovene: Tajo m
• Spanish: Tajo m
• Swedish: Tajo c
• Turkish: Tejo
• Ukrainian: Та́хо f (Táxo)

Anagrams

• Gauts, Guats, agust, tsuga

Latin

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈta.ɡʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈtaː.ɡus]

Proper noun

Tagus m sg (genitive Tagī); second declension

The river's estuary, in Lisbon

1. Tagus (a river in Lusitania)

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Tagus
genitive	Tagī
dative	Tagō
accusative	Tagum
ablative	Tagō
vocative	Tage

Descendants

• Portuguese: Tejo
• Spanish: Tajo
• → English: Tagus

References

• “Tagus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Tagus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.