Ancient Greek Dictionary

Ancient Greek Dictionary

Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

Ὀρέστεια

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ὀρέστεια

Structure: Ὀρεστει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. the tale of Orestes
  2. a temple of Orestes

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative Ὀρέστεια Ὀρεστείᾱ Ὀρέστειαι
Genitive Ὀρεστείᾱς Ὀρεστείαιν Ὀρεστειῶν
Dative Ὀρεστείᾱͅ Ὀρεστείαιν Ὀρεστείαις
Accusative Ὀρεστείᾱν Ὀρεστείᾱ Ὀρεστείᾱς
Vocative Ὀρεστείᾱ Ὀρεστείᾱ Ὀρέστειαι

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • πολλὰ δὲ τῶν Ξάνθου παραπεποίηκεν ὁ Στησίχοροσ, ὥσπερ καὶ τὴν Ὀρέστειαν καλουμένην. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 6 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. a temple of Orestes

Similar forms

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

Find this word at Perseus Greek Word Study Tool

SEARCH

MENU NAVIGATION