Orestes

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Orestes m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Heteropterygidae – several stick insects.

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa – superphylum; Arthropoda – phylum; Hexapoda – subphylum; Insecta – class; Pterygota – subclass; Neoptera – infraclass; Polyneoptera – superorder; Phasmida – order; Verophasmatodea – suborder; Areolatae – infraorder; Bacilloidea – superfamily; Heteropterygidae – family; Dataminae - subfamily; Datamini - tribe

• Verophasmatodea on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Orestes on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Orestes (Phasmida) on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ὀρέστης (Oréstēs).

• IPA^(key): /ɒˈɹɛstiːz/

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Orestes

1. (Greek mythology) The son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, who killed his mother, avenging his father's death, and was then pursued by the Furies.
2. A region of Macedonia.
3. A town in Indiana.

• Rosetes, e-stores, osseter, stereos

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Ὀρέστης (Oréstēs).

• IPA^(key): /ˈorestes/, [ˈo̞re̞s̠te̞s̠]
• Rhymes: -orestes
• Syllabification^(key): O‧res‧tes
• Hyphenation^(key): O‧res‧tes

Orestes

1. (Greek mythology) Orestes

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ὀρέστης (Oréstēs).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɔˈrɛs.teːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [oˈrɛs.t̪es]

Orestēs m sg (genitive Orestis or Orestae or Orestī); variously declined, third declension, first declension

1. , the son of Agamemnon

• “Orestes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Orestes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.