Onchesmus

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ὄγκησμος (Ónkēsmos).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /onˈkʰeːs.mus/, [ɔŋˈkʰeːs̠mʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /onˈkes.mus/, [oŋˈkɛzmus]

Proper noun

Onchēsmus m sg (genitive Onchēsmī); second declension

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

Declension

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

• Onchesmītēs

References

• “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