Oasis
See also: oasis, OASIS, oásis, and Ὄασις
English
Proper noun
Oasis
- A census-designated place in Riverside County, California, United States.
- A census-designated place in Elko County, Nevada, United States.
Anagrams
- Osias, ossia
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Ὄασις (Óasis), from Demotic wḥj, from Egyptian wḥꜣt (“Oasis, cauldron”)
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Compare Sahidic Coptic ⲟⲩⲁϩⲉ (ouahe) and Arabic وَاحَة (wāḥa).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈo.a.sis/, [ˈoäs̠ɪs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈo.a.sis/, [ˈɔːäs̬is]
Proper noun
Oasis f sg (genitive Oasis); third declension
- 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: оаза
- Latin: 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