οὖς
See also: οὕς
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- ὦς (ôs) – Doric, Koine
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓws. Cognate with Old English ēare (English ear), Latin auris, Old Armenian ունկն (unkn), Old Church Slavonic оухо (uxo), and Old Irish áu.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ûːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /us/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /us/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /us/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /us/
Noun
οὖς • (oûs) n (genitive ὠτός); third declension
- (anatomy, zootomy) ear
- hearing
- (from resemblance to an ear):
- handle of a pitcher or cup
- (architecture) Synonym of πᾰρωτῐ́ς (parōtís).
- Ellipsis of οὖς Ἀ̆φροδῑ́της (oûs Aphrodī́tēs).: A kind of shellfish.
- (anatomy) auricle of the heart
- The name of part of a bandage.
- (figuratively) spy
Inflection
Third declension of τὸ οὖς; τοῦ ὠτός (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Plural | |||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ οὖς tò oûs | τᾰ̀ ὦτᾰ tà ôta | |||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ὠτός toû ōtós | τῶν ὤτων tôn ṓtōn | |||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ὠτῐ́ tôi ōtí | τοῖς ὠσῐ́ / ὠσῐ́ν toîs ōsí(n) | |||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ οὖς tò oûs | τᾰ̀ ὦτᾰ tà ôta | |||||||||||
Vocative | οὖς oûs | ὦτᾰ ôta | |||||||||||
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Third declension of οὖς; οὔᾰτος (Epic)
Case / # | Singular | Plural | |||||||||||
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Nominative | οὖς oûs | οὔᾰτᾰ oúata | |||||||||||
Genitive | οὔᾰτος oúatos | οὐάτων ouátōn | |||||||||||
Dative | οὔᾰτῐ oúati | οὔᾰσῐ / οὔᾰσῐν / ὠσί / ὠσίν oúasi(n) / ōsí(n) | |||||||||||
Accusative | οὖς oûs | οὔᾰτᾰ oúata | |||||||||||
Vocative | οὖς oûs | οὔᾰτᾰ oúata | |||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ὠτᾰκουστέω (ōtakoustéō)
- ὠτᾰκουστής (ōtakoustḗs)
- ὠτᾰλγέω (ōtalgéō)
- ὠτᾰλγῐ́ᾱ (ōtalgíā)
- ὠτᾰρᾶς (ōtarâs)
- ὠτᾰ́ρῐον (ōtárion)
- ὠτεγχῠ́της (ōtenkhútēs)
- ὠτῐκός (ōtikós)
- ὠτῐ́ον (ōtíon)
- ὠτῐοφόρος (ōtiophóros)
- ὠτῐ́ς (ōtís)
- ὠτογλῠφῐ́ς (ōtogluphís)
- ὠτοειδής (ōtoeidḗs)
- ὠτοθλᾰδῐ́ᾱς (ōtothladíās)
- ὠτοκᾰ́τᾰξις (ōtokátaxis)
- ὠτοκλᾰδῐ́ᾱς (ōtokladíās)
- ὠτοκοπέω (ōtokopéō)
- ὠτοκωφέω (ōtokōphéō)
- ὠτολᾰβῐ́ς (ōtolabís)
- ὠτόλῐκνος (ōtóliknos)
- ὠτοπᾰ́ροχος (ōtopárokhos)
- ὠτοπέτης (ōtopétēs)
- ὠτόρρῠτος (ōtórrhutos)
- ὦτος (ôtos)
- ὠτότμητος (ōtótmētos)
- ὠτώεις (ōtṓeis)
Descendants
Descendants of οὖς in other languages
- → English: oto-, ot-
- Koine Greek: ὠτίον (ōtíon), ὠτία (ōtía)
- Byzantine Greek: ἀφτίον (aphtíon), ἀφτία (aphtía)
- Greek: αφτί (aftí), αυτί (aftí)
- Byzantine Greek: ἀφτίον (aphtíon), ἀφτία (aphtía)
References
- “οὖς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Further reading
- “οὖς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “οὖς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- οὖς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- οὖς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- G3775 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- ear idem, page 258.