Erennesis

Latin

Alternative forms

• Errhenysis, Errhenesis

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἐρέννεσις (Erénnesis) (or Ἐρρένυσις (Errhénusis)).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /eˈren.ne.sis/, [ɛˈrɛnːɛs̠ɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /eˈren.ne.sis/, [eˈrɛnːes̬is]

Proper noun

Erennesis m sg (genitive Erennesis); third declension

1. A tributary river of the Ganges mentioned by Arrian
   • 1798, Bonaventura Vulcanius, Ἀρριανου Ἰνδικη. Arriani Historia indica, cum Bonav. Vulcanii Interpretatione Latina , (edited Friedrich Gotthelf Benjamin Schmieder, page 22):

     Feruntur etiam in eum Commenases grandis fluvius, et Cacuthis atque Andomatis ex Mandiadinis Indica gente fluens: ad haec, Amystis juxta urbem Catadupam, et Oxymagis apud Pazalas, quos vocant, et Errhenysis apud Mathas, Indiae gentem, in Gangem fluunt.

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem, accusative singular in -im, ablative singular in -ī), singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Erennesis
Genitive	Erennesis
Dative	Erennesī
Accusative	Erennesim
Ablative	Erennesī
Vocative	Erennesis

Only the nominative singular is attested; other case-forms are hypothetical.

References

• “Ganges”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly