Orchomenus

English

Proper noun

Orchomenus

1. Dated form of Orchomenos.

Latin

Alternative forms

• Orchomenos

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ὀρχομενός (Orkhomenós).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɔrˈkʰɔ.mɛ.nʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [orˈkɔː.me.nus]

Proper noun

Orchomenus m sg (genitive Orchomenī); second declension

1. A city in the north of Boeotia
2. An ancient city of Arcadia
3. A city in Thessaly

Declension

Second-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Orchomenus
genitive	Orchomenī
dative	Orchomenō
accusative	Orchomenum
ablative	Orchomenō
vocative	Orchomene
locative	Orchomenī

Related terms

• Orchomenius

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.