Orcades

See also: Órcades

French

Orcades

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔʁ.kad/

Proper noun

Orcades f pl (plural only)

1. Orkney Islands (archipelago)

Related terms

• Orcadien
• orcadien

Further reading

• Orcades on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr

Anagrams

• coderas, décoras

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈor.ka.des/, [ˈɔrkäd̪ɛs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈor.ka.des/, [ˈɔrkäd̪es]

Proper noun

Orcades f pl (genitive Orcadum); third declension

1. Orkney Islands (archipelago north of Britannia Major)
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Declension

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, normal variant), plural only.

Case	Plural
Nominative	Orcades
Genitive	Orcadum
Dative	Orcadibus
Accusative	Orcadas
Ablative	Orcadibus
Vocative	Orcades

Synonyms

• (Orkney Islands): Orchadia (Mediaeval Latin)

Derived terms

• Orcadēnsis (Mediaeval Latin)

Descendants

• English: Orcadian

References

• “Orcădes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Orcădes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,089/3.
• “Orcades” on page 1,265/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

Further reading

• Orcades insulae on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^la

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Orcades f pl

1. Alternative form of Orcadas