Ὀρχομενός

See also: Ορχομένος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

ὄρχος (órkhos) +‎ μένος (ménos)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /or.kʰo.me.nós/ → /or.xo.meˈnos/ → /or.xo.meˈnos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /or.kʰo.me.nós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /or.kʰo.meˈnos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /or.xo.meˈnos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /or.xo.meˈnos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /or.xo.meˈnos/

Proper noun

Ὀρχομενός • (Orkhomenós) m or f (genitive Ὀρχομενοῦ); second declension

1. m a male given name, Orchomenus
2. f Orchomenus, the name of multiple places

Inflection

Second declension of ἡ Ὀρχομενός; τῆς Ὀρχομενοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Ὀρχομενός hē Orkhomenós
Genitive	τῆς Ὀρχομενοῦ tês Orkhomenoû
Dative	τῇ Ὀρχομενῷ têi Orkhomenôi
Accusative	τὴν Ὀρχομενόν tḕn Orkhomenón
Vocative	Ὀρχομενέ Orkhomené
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

The personal name does not take a definite article and is masculine.

Derived terms

• Ὀρχομένιος (Orkhoménios)

Descendants

• Greek: Ορχομενός (Orchomenós), Ορχομένος (Orchoménos)
• Latin: Orchomenus

References

• “Ὀρχομενός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Ὀρχομενός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Ὀρχομενός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• “Ὀρχομενός”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,019