Œnotrus
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English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Ancient Greek Οἴνωτρος (Oínōtros).
Proper noun
[edit]Œnotrus
- (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.