Latin edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ὄγκησμος (Ónkēsmos).

Pronunciation edit

Proper noun edit

Onchēsmus m sg (genitive Onchēsmī); second declension

  1. a port town of Chaonia in Epirus, now Saranda or Sarandë in Albania

Declension edit

Second-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Onchēsmus
Genitive Onchēsmī
Dative Onchēsmō
Accusative Onchēsmum
Ablative Onchēsmō
Vocative Onchēsme
Locative Onchēsmī

Related terms edit

References edit

  • Onchesmītes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Onchesmus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly