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English
Proper noun
Orchomenus
- Dated form of Orchomenos.
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ὀρχομενός (Orkhomenós).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Orchomenus m sg (genitive Orchomenī); second declension
- A city in the north of Boeotia
- An ancient city of Arcadia
- A city in Thessaly
Declension
Second-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
References
- “Orchomenus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Orchomenus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- Orchomenus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.