Orcus
See also: orcus
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɔːrkəs/
Proper noun
Orcus
- (Roman mythology) The Etruscan and Roman god of the underworld.
- Coordinate terms: Hades, Pluto
- c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], part 1, 2nd edition, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, OCLC 932920499; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene i:
- Then ſhall our footmen lie within the trench,
And with their Cannons mouth’d like Orcus gulfe
Batter the wales, and we will enter in:
And thus the Grecians ſhalbe conquered.
- (astronomy) A dwarf planet and plutino, sometimes referred to as the “anti-Pluto”. Its moon is Vanth.
- Hypernym: plutino
Synonyms
- (celestial body): 🝿 (U+15, 2022)
Translations
god
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dwarf planet
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See also
- (most likely dwarf planets of the Solar System) Ceres, Orcus, Pluto, Haumea, Quaoar, Makemake, Gonggong, Eris, Sedna
Further reading
- Orcus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- 90482 Orcus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- cours, scour, sucro-
Latin
Alternative forms
- Orchus (medieval)
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *orkos. Some refer it to Proto-Indo-European *h₂erk- (“to hold, shut in”), others to Ancient Greek ὅρκος (hórkos, “oath”).[1]
Proper noun
Orcus m (genitive Orcī); second declension
- Orcus (god of the underworld)
- the underworld
- death
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | Orcus | Orcī |
Genitive | Orcī | Orcōrum |
Dative | Orcō | Orcīs |
Accusative | Orcum | Orcōs |
Ablative | Orcō | Orcīs |
Vocative | Orce | Orcī |
Derived terms
- Orcīnus
Descendants
See also descendants at orcus.
- Old French: ogre
- French: ogre (see there for further descendants)
- Galician: orco
- Italian: orco (see there for further descendants)
- Piedmontese: òrch
- Old Spanish: huerco
- Spanish: huerco
- → Middle Dutch: orck
- Dutch: ork (regional)
- → Old English: orc
- → Portuguese: Orco
- → Sicilian: orcu
- → Spanish: orco
References
- “Orcus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Orcus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Orcus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Wagenvoort, Studies in Roman Literature, Culture and Religion