Ὀρέστης

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ὄρος (óros, “mountain”) and ἵστημι (hístēmi, “stand”), translated "a man 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
  • Portuguese: Orestes
  • 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
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