ὀρεύς
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Ionic and Homeric οὐρεύς.
Etymology
From ὄρος (óros) + -εύς (-eús).Case-forms show Attic shortening of the original stem ὀρηϝ- (orēw-); see quantitative metathesis.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /o.rěu̯s/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /oˈrews/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /oˈreɸs/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /oˈrefs/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /oˈrefs/
Noun
ὀρεύς • (oreús) m (genitive ὀρέως); third declension
- mule, beast of burden
- οὐρῆας μὲν πρῶτον ἐπῴχετο καὶ κύνας ἀργούς αὐτὰρ ἔπειτ᾽ αὐτοῖσι βέλος ἐχεπευκὲς ἐφιεὶς βάλλ᾽. (Iliad 1.50)
Usage notes
Attic speakers preferred the term ἡμίονος, though the adjectival form ὀρικός was used in place of ἡμιονικός.
Inflection
Third declension of ὁ ὀρεύς; τοῦ ὀρέως (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ ὀρεύς ho oreús | τὼ ὀρῆ tṑ orê | οἱ ὀρῆς / ὀρεῖς hoi orês / oreîs | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ὀρέως toû oréōs | τοῖν ὀρέοιν toîn oréoin | τῶν ὀρέων tôn oréōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ὀρεῖ tôi oreî | τοῖν ὀρέοιν toîn oréoin | τοῖς ὀρεῦσῐ / ὀρεῦσῐν toîs oreûsi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν ὀρέᾱ tòn oréā | τὼ ὀρῆ tṑ orê | τοὺς ὀρέᾱς toùs oréās | ||||||||||
Vocative | ὀρεῦ oreû | ὀρῆ orê | ὀρῆς / ὀρεῖς orês / oreîs | ||||||||||
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Third declension of ὀρεύς; ὀρῆος (Epic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὀρεύς oreús | ὀρῆε orêe | ὀρῆες orêes | ||||||||||
Genitive | ὀρῆος / ὀρέος orêos / oréos | ὀρήοιῐν orḗoiin | ὀρήων orḗōn | ||||||||||
Dative | ὀρῆῐ̈ / ὀρέῐ̈ orêï / oréï | ὀρήοιῐν orḗoiin | ὀρήεσσῐ / ὀρήεσσῐν / ὀρεῦσῐ / ὀρεῦσῐν orḗessi(n) / oreûsi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | ὀρῆᾰ / ὀρέᾰ orêa / oréa | ὀρῆε orêe | ὀρῆᾰς orêas | ||||||||||
Vocative | ὀρεῦ oreû | ὀρῆε orêe | ὀρῆες orêes | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ὀρεωκόμος (oreōkómos)
Further reading
- “ὀρεύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὀρεύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ὀρεύς 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
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- mule idem, page 546.
- Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, § 319-320