Oasis

Oasis

1. A census-designated place in Riverside County, California, United States.
2. A census-designated place in Elko County, Nevada, United States.

• Osias, ossia

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

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈo.a.sis/, [ˈoäs̠ɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈo.a.sis/, [ˈɔːäs̬is]

Oasis f sg (genitive Oasis); third declension

1. 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

Third-declension noun (i-stem), singular only.

• Oasēnus
• Oasītēs

• “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.