ὀρεᾶνες

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ὀρειᾶνες (oreiânes), ὀρειόνες (oreiónes)

Etymology

Unknown. According to Güntert, it belongs to ἄρσην (ársēn, “male”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /o.re.âː.nes/ → /o.reˈa.nes/ → /o.reˈa.nes/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /o.re.âː.nes/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /o.reˈa.nes/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /o.reˈa.nes/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /o.reˈa.nes/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /o.reˈa.nes/

Proper noun

ὀρεᾶνες • (oreânes) m (genitive ὀρεᾱ́νων); third declension

1. men, in the mystic language of the Pythia

Inflection

Third declension of οἱ ὀρεᾶνες; τῶν ὀρεᾱ́νων (Attic)

Case / #	Plural
Nominative	οἱ ὀρεᾶνες hoi oreânes
Genitive	τῶν ὀρεᾱ́νων tôn oreā́nōn
Dative	τοῖς ὀρεᾶσῐ / ὀρεᾶσῐν toîs oreâsi(n)
Accusative	τοὺς ὀρεᾶνᾰς toùs oreânas
Vocative	ὀρεᾶνες oreânes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “ὀρεᾶνες”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὀρεᾶνες in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN