Oasis

See also: oasis, OASIS, oásis, and Ὄασις

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ὄασις (Óasis), from Demotic wḥj, from Egyptian wḥꜣt (“Oasis, cauldron”)

G43

V28

N25

Compare Sahidic Coptic ⲟⲩⲁϩⲉ (ouahe) and Arabic واحة‎ (wāḥa).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈo.a.sis/, [ˈɔ.a.sɪs]

Proper noun

Oasis f (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.

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

Roman: 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

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