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English
Etymology
From Latin Oea.
Proper noun
Oea
- (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
- A maritime town in Africa, now Tripoli
Declension
First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
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