Œnotrus

English

Alternative forms

• Oenotrus

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Οἴνωτρος (Oínōtros).

Proper noun

Œnotrus

1. (Greek mythology) One of the younger sons of Lycaon.
   • 1789, James Burnett Monboddo, chapter III, in Of the Origin and Progress of Language, volume V, J. Balfour, page 91:

     […] yet I hold it to have been a very ancient dialect, (probably brought into Latium by Œnotrus and his Arcadians, 17 generations before the Trojan war), which came off from the parent language before it was completely formed.