Oea

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English

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Etymology

From Latin Oea.

Proper noun

Oea

  1. (historical) A city in Libya, one of the three cities of historical Tripoli, the one that would survive and take Tripoli as its modern name.

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Οἴα (Oía), the name of a city at the time of its capture by the Greek rulers of Cyrenaica, later hypothesized to be the same city as Oea, which the Greeks called Ἐώα (Eṓa), the name Οἴα (Oía) recorded as being from Punic 𐤅𐤉‬𐤏‬𐤕 (wy‬ʿ‬t‬), apparently from an unknown name of an existing Berber village, the site of which Οἴα was built on.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Oea f sg (genitive Oeae); first declension

  1. A maritime town in Africa, now Tripoli

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

singular
nominative Oea
genitive Oeae
dative Oeae
accusative Oeam
ablative Oeā
vocative Oea
locative Oeae

Derived terms

References

  • Oea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Oea”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly