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Latin
Etymology
From the Ancient Greek Γεραιστός (Geraistós).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Geraestus f sg (genitive Geraestī); second declension
- the principal town of Euboea, near the promontory Geraestus or Geraestum, opposite to the promontory of Sunium, now Geresto, or, according to others, Kastri
Declension
Second-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
Derived terms
References
- “Gĕraestus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Geraestus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.