Tyrus

English

Proper noun

Tyrus

1. Alternative form of Tyre.

Anagrams

• Rusty, rusty, yurts

Latin

Alternative forms

• Tyros

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Τύρος (Túros), from Phoenician 𐤑𐤓 (ṣr).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈty.rʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈtiː.rus]

Proper noun

Tyrus f sg (genitive Tyrī); second declension

1. Tyre (Phoenician city in modern Lebanon)

Declension

Second-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Tyrus
genitive	Tyrī
dative	Tyrō
accusative	Tyrum
ablative	Tyrō
vocative	Tyre
locative	Tyrī

Derived terms

• tyrium
• tyrius

References

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