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English
Etymology
From Latin Otrēra, from Ancient Greek Ὀτρήρη (Otrḗrē).
Proper noun
Otrera
- (Greek mythology) the creator and first Queen of the Amazons
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Ὀτρήρη (Otrḗrē), from ὀτραλέος (otraléos, “swift”); see ὀτρύνω (otrúnō, “to stir up”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Otrēra f sg (genitive Otrērae); first declension
- (Greek mythology) A queen of the Amazons and consort of Ares
Declension
First-declension noun, singular only.
References
- “Otrera”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
- Otrera in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN