Tanis

Borrowed from Latin Tanis.

• IPA^(key): /ˈteɪnɪs/

Tanis

1. A historical city in Egypt, situated on the delta of the Nile.
   • 1981, Lawrence Kasdan, Raiders of the Lost Ark, spoken by Sallah:

     The Ark. If it is there, at Tanis, then it is something that man was not meant to disturb. Death has always surrounded it. It is not of this earth.

Tanis

1. plural of Tani

• stain, saint, stian, Sinta, Saint, antis, Natsi, tians, insta-, Tians, Astin, Santi, satin, sat in, naits, Insta, tisan

Tanis f sg (genitive Tanis); third declension

1. Tanis (a historical city in Egypt)

Third-declension noun (i-stem), with locative, singular only.

• Tanītes
• Tanīticus

• “Tanis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Tanis”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly