Oea

From Latin Oea.

Oea

1. (historical) A city in Libya, one of the three cities of historical Tripoli, the one that would survive and take Tripoli as its modern name.

From Ancient Greek Οἴα (Oía), the name of a city at the time of its capture by the Greek rulers of Cyrenaica, later hypothesized to be the same city as Oea, which the Greeks called Ἐώα (Eṓa), the name Οἴα (Oía) recorded as being from Punic 𐤅𐤉‬𐤏‬𐤕 (wy‬ʿ‬t‬), apparently from an unknown name of an existing Berber village, the site of which Οἴα was built on.

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

Oea f sg (genitive Oeae); first declension

1. a maritime town in Africa, now Tripoli

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• Oeensis

• Oea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Oea”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly