ὀρός
See also: όρος, ορός, ὄρος, and ὅρος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to flow, run”); see also Sanskrit सर (sara, “flowing”), सरित् (sarit, “river, brook”) and Latin serum (“whey”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /o.rós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /oˈros/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /oˈros/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /oˈros/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /oˈros/
Noun
ὀρός • (orós) m (genitive ὀροῦ); second declension
- whey, the watery part of milk
- serum of blood
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ ὀρός; τοῦ ὀροῦ (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ ὀρός ho orós | τὼ ὀρώ tṑ orṓ | οἱ ὀροί hoi oroí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ὀροῦ toû oroû | τοῖν ὀροῖν toîn oroîn | τῶν ὀρῶν tôn orôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ὀρῷ tôi orôi | τοῖν ὀροῖν toîn oroîn | τοῖς ὀροῖς toîs oroîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν ὀρόν tòn orón | τὼ ὀρώ tṑ orṓ | τοὺς ὀρούς toùs oroús | ||||||||||
Vocative | ὀρέ oré | ὀρώ orṓ | ὀροί oroí | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἐξορίζω (exorízō)
- ὀροποτέω (oropotéō)
- ὀρώδης (orṓdēs)
Descendants
- Greek: ορός (orós)
References
- ὀρός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ὀρός in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ὀρός 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