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Ὄασις

Ὄασις

See also: oasis, oásis, Oasis, and OASIS

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

Αὔᾰσῐς ‎(Aúasis)

Proper noun

Ὄᾰσῐς • ‎(Óasis) f ‎(genitive Ὀᾰ́σεως); third declension

any one of the cities in the Libyan Desert
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.26
  
  ἐπειδὴ ἐκ τῆς Ὀάσιος ταύτης ἰέναι διὰ τῆς ψάμμου ἐπὶ σφέας, γενέσθαι τε αὐτοὺς μεταξύ κου μάλιστα αὐτῶν τε καὶ τῆς Ὀάσιος, ἄριστον αἱρεομένοισι αὐτοῖσι ἐπιπνεῦσαι νότον μέγαν τε καὶ ἐξαίσιον, φορέοντα δὲ θῖνας τῆς ψάμμου καταχῶσαι σφέας, καὶ τρόπῳ τοιούτῳ ἀφανισθῆναι.

Declension

Third declension of Ὄᾰσῐς, Ὀᾰ́σεως

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	Ὄᾰσῐς	Ὀᾰ́σει	Ὀᾰ́σεις
Genitive	Ὀᾰ́σεως	Ὀᾰσέοιν	Ὀᾰ́σεων
Dative	Ὀᾰ́σει	Ὀᾰσέοιν	Ὀᾰ́σεσῐ(ν)
Accusative	Ὄᾰσῐν	Ὀᾰ́σει	Ὀᾰ́σεις
Vocative	Ὄᾰσῐ	Ὀᾰ́σει	Ὀᾰ́σεις

Dialectal forms:
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Third declension of Ὄᾰσῐς, Ὀᾰ́σιος

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	Ὄᾰσῐς	Ὀᾰ́σιε	Ὀᾰ́σιες
Genitive	Ὀᾰ́σιος	Ὀᾰσίοιν	Ὀᾰσίων
Dative	Ὀᾰ́σῑ, Ὀᾰ́σει	Ὀᾰσίοιν	Ὀᾰ́σῐσῐ(ν), Ὀᾰσίεσῐ(ν), Ὀᾰ́σεσῐ(ν)
Accusative	Ὄᾰσῐν	Ὀᾰ́σιε	Ὀᾰ́σῑς, Ὀᾰ́σιᾰς
Vocative	Ὄᾰσῐ	Ὀᾰ́σιε	Ὀᾰ́σιες

Dialectal forms:
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Derived terms

Ὀᾰσῖται ‎(Oasîtai)
Ὀασῐτῐκός ‎(Oasitikós)

Descendants

Latin: Oasis (see there for further descendants)

References

Ὄασις in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Ὄασις in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
«Ὄασις» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette