The corpus record — Latin

ŏăsis

ŏăsis · f

an inhabited spot, a fertile piece of land in the Libyan desert, an oasis

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What it meant

ŏăsis — Lewis & Short

ŏăsis, is, f., = *)/oasis [orig. a Coptic word],

I an inhabited spot, a fertile piece of land in the Libyan desert, an oasis; esp. the great oasis in Upper Egypt, to which criminals were banished by the emperors, Cod. Just. 9, 47, 26; Dig. 48, 22, 7, § 5.— Hence,

A ŏăsēnus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Oasis: Oasena deportatio, Cod. Th. 9, 32.—

B ŏăsītes, ae, m., adj., of or belonging to Oasis, Oasite: Oasitae nomi, Plin. 5, 9, 9, § 50.

Where it came from

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