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Oasis
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English
Proper noun
Oasis
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Ὄασις (Óasis), from Demotic wḥj, from Egyptian wḥꜣt (“Oasis, cauldron”)
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Compare Sahidic Coptic ⲟⲩⲁϩⲉ (ouahe) and Arabic وَاحَة (wāḥa).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈo.a.sɪs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈɔː.a.s̬is]
Proper noun
Oasis f sg (genitive Oasis); third declension
- The Great Oasis of Thebes, a string of oases in the Libyan Desert where the Roman Empire would send its criminals, the location of the modern Dakhla Oasis and Kharga Oasis
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem), singular only.
Derived terms
- Oasēnus
- Oasītēs
Descendants
- English: oasis
- Armenian: օազիս (ōazis)
- Asturian: oasis
- Basque: oasi
- Catalan: oasi
- Czech: oáza
- Danish: oase
- Dutch: oase
- Esperanto: oazo
- Middle French: oasis
- French: oasis
- Galician: oasis
- German: Oase
- Hebrew: אואזיס (oázis)
- Hungarian: oázis
- Irish: ósais
- Italian: oasi
- Japanese: オアシス (oashisu)
- Macedonian: оа́за (oáza)
- Norwegian: oase
- Portuguese: oásis
- Romanian: oază
- Russian: оа́зис (oázis)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: oáza
- Spanish: oasis
- Swedish: oas
References
- “Oasis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Oasis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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