οὐρητήρ
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From οὐρέω (ouréō, “I make water”) + -τήρ (-tḗr, suffix to form a masculine noun).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /uː.rɛː.tɛ̌ːr/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /u.re̝ˈte̝r/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /u.riˈtir/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /u.riˈtir/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /u.riˈtir/
Noun
οὐρητήρ • (ourētḗr) m (genitive οὐρητῆρος); third declension
- = οὐρήθρα (ourḗthra, “urethra”)
- οὐρητῆρες (ourētêres, plural) the ducts which convey the urine from the kidneys into the bladder
Inflection
Third declension of ὁ οὐρητήρ; τοῦ οὐρητῆρος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ οὐρητήρ ho ourētḗr | τὼ οὐρητῆρε tṑ ourētêre | οἱ οὐρητῆρες hoi ourētêres | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ οὐρητῆρος toû ourētêros | τοῖν οὐρητήροιν toîn ourētḗroin | τῶν οὐρητήρων tôn ourētḗrōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ οὐρητῆρῐ tôi ourētêri | τοῖν οὐρητήροιν toîn ourētḗroin | τοῖς οὐρητῆρσῐ / οὐρητῆρσῐν toîs ourētêrsi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν οὐρητῆρᾰ tòn ourētêra | τὼ οὐρητῆρε tṑ ourētêre | τοὺς οὐρητῆρᾰς toùs ourētêras | ||||||||||
Vocative | οὐρητήρ ourētḗr | οὐρητῆρε ourētêre | οὐρητῆρες ourētêres | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → English: ureter
Further reading
- “οὐρητήρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press