Word.ws English Dictionary

Tauris

Tauris is the alternative form of Taurica.

Meaning of Taurica

Proper noun

Taurica

  1. (historical) An ancient geographic region and peninsula, the name used by the Greeks and Romans for the modern Crimean Peninsula in Eastern Europe, internationally recognized as part of Ukraine but occupied by Russia.

Questions about Tauris

What is Tauris the alternative form of?
Tauris is the alternative form of Taurica.

Words near Tauris in the dictionary

  1. taurin
  2. taurine
  3. taurines
  4. Taurini
  5. taurinomethyl
  6. Tauris
  7. taurobolia
  8. taurobolic
  9. taurobolium
  10. tauroboly
  11. taurocephalous

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Tauris (page history and authors); Taurica (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Tauris.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/tauris. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.