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Ancient Greek
Etymology
ὄρχος (órkhos) + μένος (ménos)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /or.kʰo.me.nós/ → /or.xo.meˈnos/ → /or.xo.meˈnos/
Proper noun
Ὀρχομενός • (Orkhomenós) m or f (genitive Ὀρχομενοῦ); second declension
- m a male given name, Orchomenus
- f Orchomenus, the name of multiple places
Inflection
The personal name does not take a definite article and is masculine.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “Ὀρχομενός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Ὀρχομενός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “Ὀρχομενός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- “Ὀρχομενός”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,019