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Œnotrus

Œnotrus proper noun: one of the younger sons of Lycaon.

Proper noun

Œnotrus

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

Forms of Œnotrus

alternative formOenotrus

Origin of Œnotrus

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Οἴνωτρος (Oínōtros).

Questions about Œnotrus

What does Œnotrus mean?
Œnotrus means one of the younger sons of Lycaon.
What part of speech is Œnotrus?
Œnotrus is a proper noun.

Words near Œnotrus in the dictionary

  1. œnophile
  2. œnophiles
  3. œnophorum
  4. Œnophyta
  5. Œnotria
  6. Œnotrus
  7. Œnoë
  8. œsophagal
  9. œsophageal
  10. œsophagean
  11. œsophagi

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