Oxus

From Latin Ōxus, from Ancient Greek Ὦξος (Ôxos). Doublet of Vakhsh.

Oxus

1. The Amu Darya river.
   • 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 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 […]

• UXOs

From Ancient Greek Ὦξος (Ôxos).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈoːk.sʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɔk.sus]

Ōxus m sg (genitive Ōxī); second declension

1. the Amu Darya river

Second-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

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