English

Proper noun

Oxus

1. The Amu Darya river.
   • 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society 2010, p. 17:

     By a happy coincidence, at around this time, reports began to reach him from Central Asia that rich deposits of gold were to be found there on the banks of the River Oxus [...].

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ὦξος ‎(Ôxos).

Proper noun

Ōxus m ‎(genitive Ōxī); second declension

1. Amu Darya

Declension

Second declension, with locative.

References

• Oxus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “Oxus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.