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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ὀδησσός (Odēssós).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Odēssus f sg (genitive Odēssī); second declension
- A city of Moesia situated on the Black Sea, now Varna
Declension
Second-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
References
- “Odessos”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Odessos in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “Odessus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly