Ὀρειάς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ὄρος (óros, “mountain”) +‎ -άς (-ás)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /o.reː.ás/ → /o.riˈas/ → /o.riˈas/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /o.reː.ás/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /o.riˈas/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /o.riˈas/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /o.riˈas/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /o.riˈas/

Proper noun

Ὀρειάς • (Oreiás) f (genitive Ὀρειάδος); third declension

1. oread

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ Ὀρειᾰ́ς; τῆς Ὀρειᾰ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ Ὀρειᾰ́ς hē Oreiás	τὼ Ὀρειᾰ́δε tṑ Oreiáde	αἱ Ὀρειᾰ́δες hai Oreiádes
Genitive	τῆς Ὀρειᾰ́δος tês Oreiádos	τοῖν Ὀρειᾰ́δοιν toîn Oreiádoin	τῶν Ὀρειᾰ́δων tôn Oreiádōn
Dative	τῇ Ὀρειᾰ́δῐ têi Oreiádi	τοῖν Ὀρειᾰ́δοιν toîn Oreiádoin	ταῖς Ὀρειᾰ́σῐ / Ὀρειᾰ́σῐν taîs Oreiási(n)
Accusative	τὴν Ὀρειᾰ́δᾰ tḕn Oreiáda	τὼ Ὀρειᾰ́δε tṑ Oreiáde	τᾱ̀ς Ὀρειᾰ́δᾰς tā̀s Oreiádas
Vocative	Ὀρειᾰ́ς Oreiás	Ὀρειᾰ́δε Oreiáde	Ὀρειᾰ́δες Oreiádes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Further reading

• Ὀρειάς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “Ὀρειάς”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
• “Ὀρειάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press