Orcades

Borrowed from Latin Orcadēs.

• IPA^(key): /ɔʁ.kad/

Orcades f pl (plural only)

1. Orkney (archipelago)

• Orcadien
• orcadien

• Orcades on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr

• coderas, décoras

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɔr.ka.dɛs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɔr.ka.d̪es]

Orcades f pl (genitive Orcadum); third declension

1. Orkney (archipelago north of Britannia Major)

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

• (Orkney): Orchadia (Mediaeval Latin)

• Orcadēnsis (Mediaeval Latin)

• English: Orcadian

• “Orcădes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Orcădes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,089/3.
• “Orcades” on page 1,265/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

• Orcades insulae on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^la

Orcades f pl (plural only)

1. alternative form of Orcadas