ὄρθρος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *h₃r̥dʰ-ro-, from *h₃erdʰ- (“to rise”). Cognate with ὀρθός (orthós), Latin ortus (“star's rise”), oriens (“sunrise”).[1]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ór.tʰros/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈor.tʰros/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈor.θros/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈor.θros/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈor.θros/
Noun
ὄρθρος • (órthros) m (genitive ὄρθρου); second declension
- The time immediately before or around sunrise, early morning, dawn
- (ὄρθρος βαθύς (órthros bathús)) dim morning twilight
- 400 BCE – 387 BCE, Plato, Crito 43a:
- Σωκράτης τί τηνικάδε ἀφῖξαι, ὦ Κρίτων; ἢ οὐ πρῲ ἔτι ἐστίν;
Κρίτων πάνυ μὲν οὖν.
Σωκράτης πηνίκα μάλιστα;
Κρίτων ὄρθρος βαθύς.- Sōkrátēs tí tēnikáde aphîxai, ô Krítōn? ḕ ou prṑi éti estín?
Krítōn pánu mèn oûn.
Sōkrátēs pēníka málista?
Krítōn órthros bathús. - Socrates: Why have you come at this time, Crito? Or isn't it still early?
Crito: Yes, very much so.
Socrates: About what time?
Crito: Just before dawn.
- Sōkrátēs tí tēnikáde aphîxai, ô Krítōn? ḕ ou prṑi éti estín?
- Σωκράτης τί τηνικάδε ἀφῖξαι, ὦ Κρίτων; ἢ οὐ πρῲ ἔτι ἐστίν;
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ ὄρθρος; τοῦ ὄρθρου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ ὄρθρος ho órthros | τὼ ὄρθρω tṑ órthrō | οἱ ὄρθροι hoi órthroi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ὄρθρου toû órthrou | τοῖν ὄρθροιν toîn órthroin | τῶν ὄρθρων tôn órthrōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ὄρθρῳ tôi órthrōi | τοῖν ὄρθροιν toîn órthroin | τοῖς ὄρθροις toîs órthrois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν ὄρθρον tòn órthron | τὼ ὄρθρω tṑ órthrō | τοὺς ὄρθρους toùs órthrous | ||||||||||
Vocative | ὄρθρε órthre | ὄρθρω órthrō | ὄρθροι órthroi | ||||||||||
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References
- “ὄρθρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὄρθρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- G3722 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.
- dawn idem, page 197.
- dusk idem, page 256.
- morning idem, page 541.
- twilight idem, page 903.
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “1101-1102”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page ὄρθρος