Ὀρέστης
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ὄρος (óros, “mountain”) +ἵστημι (hístēmi, “stand”) + -ής (-ḗs, “proper name suffix”), literally, "one who stands on a mountain".
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /o.rés.tɛːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /oˈres.te̝s/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /oˈres.tis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /oˈres.tis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /oˈres.tis/
Proper noun
Ὀρέστης • (Oréstēs) m (genitive Ὀρέστου); first declension
Inflection
Derived terms
Descendants
- English: Orest
- Greek: Ορέστης (Oréstis)
- Latin: Orestes
- Armenian: Օրեսթես (Ōrestʻes)
- Georgian: ორესტე (oresṭe)
- Portuguese: Orestes
- Romanian: Oreste
- Russian: Оре́ст (Orést)
- Ukrainian: Орест (Orest)
Further reading
- “Ὀρέστης”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,019
- “Ὀρέστης”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011