Tarsus

From Latin Tarsus, from Ancient Greek Ταρσός (Tarsós), ultimately from Hittite Tarsa.

Tarsus

1. A city in Mersin Province in southeastern Turkey, an important center of Cilicia since antiquity.

• (historical names): Tarsa, Tarsos, Antioch, Antioch on the Cydnus, Juliopolis

• Asturs, Rastus, Straus, Surats, Sūtras, surats, sutras, sūtras, tussar

Borrowed from Latin tarsus.

Tarsus m (strong, genitive Tarsus, plural Tarsen)

1. (zootomy) tarsus
   • 1912, Theodor Becker, “Chloropidae”, in Annales historico-naturales Musei nationalis hungarici‎^[1], volume 10, Budapest, page 28:

     Beine ganz rotgelb, letzte Tarsenglieder etwas braun.

     Legs entirely reddish-yellow, last tarsomeres [literally tarsi segments] brownish.

• Tarsenglied

From Ancient Greek Ταρσός (Tarsós).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtar.sʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈtar.sus]

Tarsus f sg (genitive Tarsī); second declension

1. Tarsus, Cilicia

Second-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

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

From Ottoman Turkish طرسوس (Tarsus), from Byzantine Greek Ταρσός (Tarsós).

• IPA^(key): /tʰaɾ.sus/

Tarsus

1. a town and district of Mersin Province, Turkey

• Tarsuslu