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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ὀρειάς (Oreiás), from ὄρος (óros, “mountain”).
Pronunciation
Noun
Orēas f (genitive Orēadis); third declension
- (Greek mythology) an oread (a mountain nymph)
Declension
Third-declension noun (Greek-type, normal variant or non-Greek-type).
References
- “Oreas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Oreas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.