ὀρέστ(ε)ιον

Grammatical information: n.

Meaning: `mountain, height'; also (in Egypt) `desert' in contrast to cultivated plain (Il.).

Other forms: w. metr. length. οὔρ-εος, - εα etc. (ep.), also ὤρ-εος, - εα (Theoc.); Megar. ὄρρος and Chalcid. (RPh. 71, 1997, 170)

Compounds: As 1. member 1. w. unenlarged stem a.o. in ὀρεσκῳ̃ος (s. v.); 2. themat. enlarged e.g. in ὀρεο-σέλινον n. `mountain-parsley' (Thphr.; Risch IF 59, 257, Strömberg Pflanzn. 33 a. 116); 3. often in dat. sg. (= loc.), e.g. ὀρει-δρόμος `roming in the mountains' (Pi., E., Nonn.), after thir a.o. ὀρεί-χαλκος m. `mountain ore, brass (h. Hom. 6, 9, Hes. Sc. 122; Risch 59, 27; on the meaning Michell ClassRev. 69, 21 f.), Lat. LW [loanword] orichalcum, folketym. auri-; also ὠρό-χαλκος (Peripl. M. Rubr., PGiss. 47, 6; - ο- in comp.boundary, ὠ- = Lat. au-?); 4. in dat. pl., e.g. ὀρεσί-τροφος `grown up in the mountains' (Hom.).

Derivatives: 1. ὀρέσ-τερος `living in the mountains, to consist of mountains' (Χ 93; Chantraine Études 36 w. n.3 a. lit.); 2. ὄρειος (= *ὄρεσ-ιος), ep. lyr. οὔρ-, `mountainous' (h. Merc. 244), f. - ειάς (AP), as subst. `mountain-nymph' (Bion, Nonn.); 3. ὀρεινός (\< *ὀρεσ-νός) `id.' (IA.); 4. Όρέσ-της m. PN (Il.) with Όρεστ-άδης (Fraenkel Nom. ag. 2, 184), ὀρέστ(ε)ιον n. = ἑλένιον (Dsc., Plin.; Strömberg Pflanzenn. 102); Όρέσ-ται m. pl. "highlander", name of an Epeirotic people (Th.); ὀρεστ-ιάδες νύμφαι (Ζ 420, h. Hom. 19, 19); metr. for *ὀρεστ-άδ- (Schwyzer 508); ὀρεστ-ίας m. `mountain wind' (Call.; like Όλυμπίας a.o., Chantraine Form. 95); 5. ὀρώδης `mountainous' (EM).

Origin: IE [Indo-European] [326] * h₃er- `rise'

Etymology: Prop. prob. *"elevation" as verbal noun of ὄρνυμαι, ὀρέσθαι `rise etc.' (s.v. w. lit.); cf. Chantraine Form. 417, Schwyzer 512 and Porzig Satzinhalte 300 (so * h₃er-os). A further deriv. of this s-stems may be found in Skt. r̥ṣ-vá- `ricing up, high'; vgl. auch ὄρρος und ὀρσοθύρη.

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