οὐραῖος
Ancient Greek
Etymology 1
From οὐρά (ourá, “tail”) + -αῖος (-aîos, adjective suffix).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /uː.râi̯.os/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /uˈrɛ.os/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /uˈrɛ.os/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /uˈre.os/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /uˈre.os/
Adjective
οὐραῖος • (ouraîos) m (feminine οὐραίᾱ, neuter οὐραῖον); first/second declension
- of the tail
Declension
First and second declension of οὐραῖος; οὐραίᾱ; οὐραῖον (Attic)
Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
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Case/Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |||||
Nominative | οὐραῖος ouraîos | οὐραίᾱ ouraíā | οὐραῖον ouraîon | οὐραίω ouraíō | οὐραίᾱ ouraíā | οὐραίω ouraíō | οὐραῖοι ouraîoi | οὐραῖαι ouraîai | οὐραῖᾰ ouraîa | |||||
Genitive | οὐραίου ouraíou | οὐραίᾱς ouraíās | οὐραίου ouraíou | οὐραίοιν ouraíoin | οὐραίαιν ouraíain | οὐραίοιν ouraíoin | οὐραίων ouraíōn | οὐραίων ouraíōn | οὐραίων ouraíōn | |||||
Dative | οὐραίῳ ouraíōi | οὐραίᾳ ouraíāi | οὐραίῳ ouraíōi | οὐραίοιν ouraíoin | οὐραίαιν ouraíain | οὐραίοιν ouraíoin | οὐραίοις ouraíois | οὐραίαις ouraíais | οὐραίοις ouraíois | |||||
Accusative | οὐραῖον ouraîon | οὐραίᾱν ouraíān | οὐραῖον ouraîon | οὐραίω ouraíō | οὐραίᾱ ouraíā | οὐραίω ouraíō | οὐραίους ouraíous | οὐραίᾱς ouraíās | οὐραῖᾰ ouraîa | |||||
Vocative | οὐραῖε ouraîe | οὐραίᾱ ouraíā | οὐραῖον ouraîon | οὐραίω ouraíō | οὐραίᾱ ouraíā | οὐραίω ouraíō | οὐραῖοι ouraîoi | οὐραῖαι ouraîai | οὐραῖᾰ ouraîa | |||||
Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
οὐραίως ouraíōs | οὐραιότερος ouraióteros | οὐραιότᾰτος ouraiótatos | ||||||||||||
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Etymology 2
Traditionally assumed to be from Egyptian jꜥrt (“cobra in threat posture”),
, from jꜥr (“to rise, climb”); however, on phonetic grounds, Gundacker, following Fecht, argues for an origin in Egyptian wrrt (“white crown”, literally “the great one”) instead.
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Alternative forms
- *οὐβαῖος (*oubaîos) (The accusative form οὐβαῖον appears as a hapax legomenon in some copies of Horapollo's Hieroglyphica[1]. Appears to be typographical error, but cf. Coptic ⲟⲃⲓⲟⲛ (obion).)
Noun
οὐραῖος • (ouraîos) m (genitive οὐραίου); second declension
- uraeus, sacred asp
Declension
Second declension of ὁ οὐραῖος; τοῦ οὐραίου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ οὐραῖος ho ouraîos | τὼ οὐραίω tṑ ouraíō | οἱ οὐραῖοι hoi ouraîoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ οὐραίου toû ouraíou | τοῖν οὐραίοιν toîn ouraíoin | τῶν οὐραίων tôn ouraíōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ οὐραίῳ tôi ouraíōi | τοῖν οὐραίοιν toîn ouraíoin | τοῖς οὐραίοις toîs ouraíois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν οὐραῖον tòn ouraîon | τὼ οὐραίω tṑ ouraíō | τοὺς οὐραίους toùs ouraíous | ||||||||||
Vocative | οὐραῖε ouraîe | οὐραίω ouraíō | οὐραῖοι ouraîoi | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Latin: ūraeus
Further reading
- “οὐραῖος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “οὐραῖος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- οὐραῖος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- See, for example, https://books.google.com/books?id=LMB26GgToccC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&pg=PA6#v=onepage&f=false and https://books.google.com/books?id=_SaANwtRCHYC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&pg=PA1#v=onepage&f=false