Oasis

== 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 Egyptian wḥj, from Egyptian wḥꜣt (“Oasis, cauldron”) Compare Sahidic Coptic ⲟⲩⲁϩⲉ (ouahe) and Arabic وَاحَة (wāḥa). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈo.a.sɪs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈɔː.a.s̬is] === 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. ==== Derived terms ==== Oasēnus Oasītēs ==== Descendants ==== === 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.