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ὀρεστιάς?

Third declension Noun; Transliteration: orestias

Principal Part: ὀρεστιάς ὀρεστιάδος

Structure: ὀρεστιαδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: ὄρος

Sense

  1. of the mountains

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὀρεστιάς ὀρεστιάδε ὀρεστιάδες
Genitive ὀρεστιάδος ὀρεστιάδοιν ὀρεστιάδων
Dative ὀρεστιάδι ὀρεστιάδοιν ὀρεστιάσι(ν)
Accusative ὀρεστιάδα ὀρεστιάδε ὀρεστιάδας
Vocative ὀρεστιά ὀρεστιάδε ὀρεστιάδες

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

  • σὺν δέ σφιν τότε Νύμφαι ὀρεστιάδες λιγύμολποι φοιτῶσαι πύκα ποσσὶν ἐπὶ κρήνῃ μελανύδρῳ μέλπονται: (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 2:6)
  • περὶ δὲ πτελέας ἐφύτευσαν νύμφαι ὀρεστιάδες κοῦραι Διὸς αἰγιόχοιο. (Homer, Iliad, Book 6 41:3)
  • λέγεται δὲ τὴν Ὀρεστιάδα κατασχεῖν ποτε Ὀρέστης φεύγων τὸν τῆς μητρὸς φόνον καὶ καταλιπεῖν ἐπώνυμον ἑαυτοῦ τὴν χώραν, κτίσαι δὲ καὶ πόλιν, καλεῖσθαι δ αὐτὴν Ἄργος Ὀρεστικόν. (Strabo, Geography, Book 7, chapter 7 16:2)
  • καὶ δὴ καὶ τὰ περὶ Λύγκον καὶ Πελαγονίαν καὶ Ὀρεστιάδα καὶ Ἐλίμειαν τὴν ἄνω Μακεδονίαν ἐκάλουν, οἱ δ ὕστερον καὶ ἐλευθέραν: (Strabo, Geography, Book 7, chapter 7 16:14)

Synonyms

  1. of the mountains

Similar forms

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

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