Œnotrus

Œnotrus

English

Alternative forms

• Oenotrus

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Οἴνωτρος (Oínōtros).

Proper noun

Œnotrus

1. (Greek mythology) One of the younger sons of Lycaon.
   • 1789 CE, James Burnett Monboddo, Of the Origin and Progress of Language, J. Balfour; Volume V, Chapter III, page #91:

     […] 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.