Oreas

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ὀρειάς (Oreiás), from ὄρος (óros, “mountain”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɔˈreː.as]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [oˈrɛː.as]

Noun

Orēas f (genitive Orēadis); third declension

1. (Greek mythology) an oread (a mountain nymph)

Declension

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, normal variant or non-Greek-type).

	singular	plural
nominative	Orēas	Orēades Orēadēs
genitive	Orēados Orēadis	Orēadum
dative	Orēadī	Orēadibus
accusative	Orēada Orēadem	Orēadas Orēadēs
ablative	Orēade	Orēadibus
vocative	Orēas	Orēades Orēadēs

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.