Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Scripts Ὀρέστης(Ancient Greek)
Meaning
Means “of the mountains”, derived from Greek ὄρος (oros) meaning “mountain” and ἵστημι (histemi) meaning “to stand”. In Greek myth he was the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. He killed his mother and her lover Aegisthus after they killed his father.