Oasis

See also: oasis, OASIS, oásis, and Ὄασις

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ὄασις (Óasis), from Demotic wḥj, from Egyptian wḥꜣt (“Oasis, cauldron”)

Compare Sahidic Coptic ⲟⲩⲁϩⲉ (ouahe) and Arabic واحة (wāḥa).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈo.a.sis/, [ˈoäs̠ɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈo.a.sis/, [ˈɔːäs̬is]

Proper noun

Oasis f sg (genitive Oasis); third declension

1. The Great Oasis of Thebes, a string of oases in the Libyan Desert where the Roman Empire would send its criminals, the location of the modern Dakhla Oasis and Kharga Oasis

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem), singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Oasis
Genitive	Oasis
Dative	Oasī
Accusative	Oasem
Ablative	Oase
Vocative	Oasis

Derived terms

• Oasēnus
• Oasītēs

Descendants

• English: oasis
• Armenian: օազիս (ōazis)
• Asturian: oasis
• Basque: oasi
• Catalan: oasi
• Czech: oáza

• Danish: oase
• Dutch: oase
• Esperanto: oazo
• Middle French: oasis
  • French: oasis
• Galician: oasis

• German: Oase
• Hebrew: אואזיס (oázis)
• Hungarian: oázis
• Irish: ósais
• Italian: oasi
• Japanese: オアシス (oashisu)

• Macedonian: оа́за (oáza)
• Norwegian: oase
• Polish: oaza
• Portuguese: oásis
• Romanian: oază
• Russian: оа́зис (oázis)

• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: оаза

  Latin script: oaza

• Spanish: oasis
• Swedish: oas

References

• “Oasis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Oasis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.