Oxyrynchus

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ὀξῠ́ρρῠγχος (Oxŭ́rrhŭnkhos).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɔk.syˈryŋ.kʰʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ok.siˈriŋ.kus]

Oxyrynchus f sg (genitive Oxyrynchī); second declension

1. A town of Lower Egypt famous for a fish that was worshipped here

Second-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• → French: Oxyrhynque

• “Oxyrynchus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly