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Orneae

Orneae proper noun: a city, mentioned in the Iliad, situated north of Leontio in Corinthia in Ancient Greece.

Proper noun

Orneae

  1. A city, mentioned in the Iliad, situated north of Leontio in Corinthia in Ancient Greece.
    • Orneæ seems to have been situated very near the southern side of the plain of Ai Ghiórghi.1830, William Martin Leake, chapter XXX, in Travels in the Morea, volume III, page 350

Origin of Orneae

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ὀρνεαί (Orneaí).

Questions about Orneae

What does Orneae mean?
Orneae means a city, mentioned in the Iliad, situated north of Leontio in Corinthia in Ancient Greece.
What part of speech is Orneae?
Orneae is a proper noun.

Words near Orneae in the dictionary

  1. ornature
  2. Orndoff
  3. Orndoffs
  4. Orndorf
  5. Orne
  6. Orneae
  7. orned
  8. ornee
  9. orneodid
  10. orneodids
  11. ornerier

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