οὐραχός
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Ultimately from οὐρά (ourá, “tail, rear”). Compare also οὐρίαχος (ouríakhos, “butt-end of the spear”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /oː.ra.kʰós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /u.raˈkʰos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /u.raˈxos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /u.raˈxos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /u.raˈxos/
Noun
οὐρᾰχός • (ourakhós) m (genitive οὐρᾰχοῦ); second declension
- (anatomy) urachus, a foetal organ connected with the bladder
- apex of the heart
- (in the plural) outer ends of the eyebrows
- point of a drill or borer
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ οὐρᾰχός; τοῦ οὐρᾰχοῦ (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ οὐρᾰχός ho ourakhós | τὼ οὐρᾰχώ tṑ ourakhṓ | οἱ οὐρᾰχοί hoi ourakhoí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ οὐρᾰχοῦ toû ourakhoû | τοῖν οὐρᾰχοῖν toîn ourakhoîn | τῶν οὐρᾰχῶν tôn ourakhôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ οὐρᾰχῷ tôi ourakhôi | οὐρᾰχοῖν ourakhoîn | τοῖς οὐρᾰχοῖς toîs ourakhoîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν οὐρᾰχόν tòn ourakhón | οὐρᾰχώ ourakhṓ | τοὺς οὐρᾰχούς toùs ourakhoús | ||||||||||
Vocative | οὐρᾰχέ ourakhé | οὐρᾰχώ ourakhṓ | οὐρᾰχοί ourakhoí | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- οὐραχοειδής (ourakhoeidḗs)
Descendants
- → English: urachus
References
- οὐραχός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- οὐραχός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN