proper noun · femininethird declension
Trallēs
Trallēs f pl (genitive Trallium)
Meaning
- Aydin (a city in Lydia, now within modern Turkey)
Declension
| form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | — | Trallēs |
| genitive | — | Trallium |
| dative | — | Trallibus |
| accusative | — | Trallēs Trallīs |
| ablative | — | Trallibus |
| vocative | — | Trallēs |
| locative | — | Trallibus |
Tralles, ĭum, f.,
I. a town in Lydia, the modern Aidin Guzel - Hissar, Cic. Fl. 24, 57; 29, 71; id. Agr. 2, 15, 39; id. Att. 5, 14, 1; id. Fam. 3, 5, 1; id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 6, § 17; Caes. B. C. 3, 105, 5; Liv. 37, 45; Juv. 3, 70.—Called also Trallis, Plin. 5, 29, 29, § 108.—Hence, Trallĭānus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Tralles, Trallian:
quasi vero Trallianus fuerit Demosthenes, i. e. a native of Tralles, Cic. Or. 70, 234; cf. id. Phil. 3, 6, 15.—In plur. subst.: Trallĭā-ni, ōrum, m., the inhabitants of Tralles, the Trallians, Cic. Fl. 22, 52 sq.Tralles, ĭum, m.,
I. a people of Illyria, Liv. 31, 35; 37, 39 and 40.—Called also Tralli, ōrum, Liv. 27, 32.
Origins
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Τράλλεις (Trálleis).
In the Academy Smith's classical dictionaries
GeographyTrallesTralles or TRALLIS (Τράλλεις, Τράλλις: Eth. Τραλλιανός), a large and flourishing city of Caria, on the southern slope of mount Messogis, a little to t…GeographyTrallesTralles or TRALLIS (Τράλλης), a town in Phrygia, on the west of Apamea, and 15 miles east of Hierapolis, not far from the banks of the Maeander (Hiero…