tabanus

See also: Tabanus

Latin

Alternative forms

• tabō

Etymology

Argued from onomastic witnesses to be Etruscan, but unknown.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /taˈbaː.nus/, [t̪äˈbäːnʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /taˈba.nus/, [t̪äˈbäːnus]

Noun

tabānus m (genitive tabānī); second declension

1. gadfly, horsefly

   Synonyms: asīlus, oestrus

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	tabānus	tabānī
genitive	tabānī	tabānōrum
dative	tabānō	tabānīs
accusative	tabānum	tabānōs
ablative	tabānō	tabānīs
vocative	tabāne	tabānī

Descendants

• Aromanian: davan, tãun
• Catalan: tavà, tave, tàvec
• Franco-Provençal: tavan, tôna
• Friulian: tavan
• Italian: tavano, tafano
• Neapolitan: tavano
• Occitan: tavan
• Old French: tahon
  • French: taon
  • Norman: taon
• Old Galician-Portuguese: tavão
  • Galician: tabán, atabán, tabao, tábao, tabau
  • Portuguese: tavão, tabão, atavão, atabão
• Romanian: tăun
• Sicilian: tavana, tafana
• Spanish: tábano
• Venetan: tavàn
• → Esperanto: tabano
• → Translingual: Tabanus

References

• Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “tabanus”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots‎^[1] (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 672
• “tabanus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tabanus 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)
• tabanus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.