Ὀρόντης
Ancient Greek
Etymology 1
From Akkadian 𒀀𒊏𒀭𒌓 (Arāntu, “Orontes; site of the Battle of Qarqar”) and also in Egyptian jrnt (Arantu/Araunti, “Orontes; river flowing by Qadesh”) attested at least from the period of Ramesses II:
- The meaning of which is contested with connections to: Akkadian 𒀀𒊏𒀭𒌓 (arantu, “a type of grass; fennel”), perhaps in connection to the region around the city of Ugarit, the ruins today being known as رَأْس شَمْرَة (raʔs šamra, “Headland or Cape Fennel”).
- Also connected to Akkadian 𒀀𒊏𒀭𒁺 (araddu, arantu, “wild ass; stubborn”), possibly related to the modern name for the river الْعَاصِي (al-ʕāṣī, “rebel, stubbornly in error, refusing to be corrected”) so-called for its flowing south to the north unlike the rest of the rivers in the region.
- Disputably from Old Median *Arvand; compare Avestan 𐬀𐬎𐬭𐬎𐬎𐬀𐬧𐬝- (auruuaṇt̰-, “swift”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /o.rón.tɛːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /oˈron.te̝s/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /oˈron.tis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /oˈron.tis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /oˈron.dis/
Proper noun
Ὀρόντης • (Oróntēs) m (genitive Ὀρόντου); first declension
- Orontes (river)
Inflection
Descendants
Etymology 2
From Old Median *Arēvand, from Proto-Iranian *Raivant-, *Rayivant- (“possessing wealth”); see Old Armenian Երուանդ (Eruand) for more.
Proper noun
Ὀρόντης • (Oróntēs) m (genitive Ὀρόντου); first declension
- Orontes (name of any one of a number of ancient Armenian kings)
Inflection
References
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,019
- Perixanjan, A. G. (1993) Материалы к этимологическому словарю древнеармянского языка. Часть I [Materials for the Etymological Dictionary of the Old Armenian Language. Part 1][2] (in Russian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 7
- Ὀρόντης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
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- Ancient Greek terms derived from Akkadian
- Ancient Greek terms derived from Egyptian
- Ancient Greek terms derived from Old Median
- Ancient Greek 3-syllable words
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- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek proper nouns
- Ancient Greek paroxytone terms
- Ancient Greek masculine proper nouns
- Ancient Greek first-declension proper nouns
- Ancient Greek masculine proper nouns in the first declension
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns
- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Iranian
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