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Ὀρόντης

Ὀρόντης

Ancient Greek

Proper noun

Ὀρόντης (Oróntēs) m (genitive Ὀρόντου); first declension

  1. the name of any one of a number of ancient Armenian kings named Orontes
  2. the river Orontes

Inflection

The personal name does not take a definite article.

Descendants

  • Greek: Ορόντης (Oróntis)
  • Latin: Orontes

References

  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,019
  • Perixanjan, Anait (1993) Materialy k etimologičeskomu slovarju drevnearmjanskovo jazyka. Častʹ I [Materials for the Etymological Dictionary of the Old Armenian Language. Part 1] (in Russian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 7