ὠρυγή
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewg- (“to roar”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ɔː.ryː.ɡɛ̌ː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /o.ryˈɡe̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /o.ryˈʝi/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /o.ryˈʝi/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /o.riˈʝi/
Noun
ὠρῡγή • (ōrūgḗ) f (genitive ὠρῡγῆς); first declension
- a howling of wolves, dogs
- Hermesianax, Collected Works 5.72
- Plutarch, Gaius Marius 20
- Julius Pollux, Onomasticon 5.87
Inflection
First declension of ἡ ὠρῡγή; τῆς ὠρῡγῆς (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ὠρῡγή hē ōrūgḗ | τὼ ὠρῡγᾱ́ tṑ ōrūgā́ | αἱ ὠρῡγαί hai ōrūgaí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ὠρῡγῆς tês ōrūgês | τοῖν ὠρῡγαῖν toîn ōrūgaîn | τῶν ὠρῡγῶν tôn ōrūgôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ὠρῡγῇ têi ōrūgêi | τοῖν ὠρῡγαῖν toîn ōrūgaîn | ταῖς ὠρῡγαῖς taîs ōrūgaîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ὠρῡγήν tḕn ōrūgḗn | τὼ ὠρῡγᾱ́ tṑ ōrūgā́ | τᾱ̀ς ὠρῡγᾱ́ς tā̀s ōrūgā́s | ||||||||||
Vocative | ὠρῡγή ōrūgḗ | ὠρῡγᾱ́ ōrūgā́ | ὠρῡγαί ōrūgaí | ||||||||||
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Related terms
- ὠρυγμός (ōrugmós, “roar”)
- ὤρυγμα (ṓrugma, “roar of the waves”)
Further reading
- “ὠρυγή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὠρυγή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ὠρυγή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette