Ὀρέστης

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Ancient Greek

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Etymology

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From ὄρος (óros, mountain) +ἵστημι (hístēmi, stand) + -ής (-ḗs, proper name suffix), literally, "one who stands on a mountain".

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Ὀρέστης (Oréstēsm (genitive Ὀρέστου); first declension

  1. Orestes

Inflection

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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Further reading

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  • Ὀρέστης”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,019
  • Ὀρέστης”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011