Ὀρέστης

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /o.rés.tɛːs/ → /oˈres.tis/ → /oˈres.tis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /o.rés.tɛːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /oˈres.te̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /oˈres.tis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /oˈres.tis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /oˈres.tis/

Proper noun

Ὀρέστης • (Oréstēs) m (genitive Ὀρέστου); first declension

1. Orestes

Inflection

First declension of ὁ Ὀρέστης; τοῦ Ὀρέστου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Ὀρέστης ho Oréstēs
Genitive	τοῦ Ὀρέστου toû Oréstou
Dative	τῷ Ὀρέστῃ tôi Oréstēi
Accusative	τὸν Ὀρέστην tòn Oréstēn
Vocative	Ὀρέστα Orésta
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Ὀρέστειος (Orésteios)
• Ὀρεστεία (Oresteía)

Descendants

• English: Orest
• Greek: Ορέστης (Oréstis)
• Latin: Orestes
• Armenian: Օրեսթես (Ōrestʻes)
• Georgian: ორესტე (oresṭe)
• Portuguese: Orestes
• Romanian: Oreste
• Russian: Оре́ст (Orést)
• Ukrainian: Орест (Orest)

Further reading

• “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] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011