Ὀρέστης

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
 

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

Descendants
  • English: Orest
  • Greek: Ορέστης (Oréstis)
  • Latin: Orestes
  • Armenian: Օրեսթես (Ōrestʿes)
  • 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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,019
  • Ὀρέστης - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.
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