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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ὄγκησμος (Ónkēsmos).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Onchēsmus m sg (genitive Onchēsmī); second declension
- a port town of Chaonia in Epirus, now Saranda or Sarandë in Albania
Declension
Second-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
References
- “Onchesmītes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Onchesmus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly