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ὀρεστιάς

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀρεστιάς ὀρεστιάδος

Structure: ὀρεστιαδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: o)/ros

Sense

  1. of the mountains

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὀρεστιάς ὀρεστιάδε ὀρεστιάδες
Genitive ὀρεστιάδος ὀρεστιάδοιν ὀρεστιάδων
Dative ὀρεστιάδι ὀρεστιάδοιν ὀρεστιάσιν*
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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