Oenus

From Latin Oenūs, Ancient Greek Οἰνοῦς (Oinoûs).

Oenus

1. A river in Laconia which flows into the Eurotas, now Kelefina

• no use, nouse, ouens

From Ancient Greek Οἰνοῦς (Oinoûs).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈoe̯.nuːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɛː.nus]

Oenūs m sg (genitive Oenūntos); third declension

1. The river Oenus, the modern Kelefina
   • 201 BCE – 167 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita Libri, Book XXXIV, §28.1:

     Quinctius satis iam omnibus parātīs prōfectus ab statīvīs diē alterō ad Sellasiam super Oenūnta fluvium pervēnit, quō in locō Antigonus Macedonum rēx cum Cleomenē Lacedaemoniōrum tyrannō signīs conlātīs dīmicāsse dīcēbātur.

     Quinctius, when all his preparations were now sufficiently made, decamped; and, on the second day, came to Sellasia, on the river Oenus, on the spot where it is said Antigonus, king of Macedonia, fought a pitched battle with Cleomenes, tyrant of Lacedaemon.

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, normal variant), singular only.

• English: Oenus

• “Oenus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press