Oresthasium

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ὀρεσθάσιον (Oresthásion).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /o.resˈtʰa.si.um/, [ɔrɛs̠ˈt̪ʰäs̠iʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /o.resˈta.si.um/, [oresˈt̪äːs̬ium]

Proper noun

Oresthasium n sg (genitive Oresthasiī or Oresthasī); second declension

1. a town of Arcadia, situated on the road from Megalopolis to Tegea

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter), with locative, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Oresthasium
Genitive	Oresthasiī Oresthasī1
Dative	Oresthasiō
Accusative	Oresthasium
Ablative	Oresthasiō
Vocative	Oresthasium
Locative	Oresthasiī

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

References

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