ὠχρός

ὠχρός

See also: ωχρός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Unknown. The connection with Sanskrit व्याघ्र (vyāghra, “tiger”) is untenable for formal reasons. Wackernagel hesitatingly supposed that a neuter ὦχρος (ôkhros) replaced an older *ὦχος (*ôkhos), like αἶσχος (aîskhos) to αἰσχρός (aiskhrós) and ψῦχος (psûkhos) to ψυχρός (psukhrós).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ɔː.kʰrós/ → /oˈxros/ → /oˈxros/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ɔː.kʰrós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /oˈkʰros/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /oˈxros/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /oˈxros/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /oˈxros/

Adjective

ὠχρός • (ōkhrós) m (feminine ὠχρᾱ́, neuter ὠχρόν); first/second declension

1. pale, sallow, wan

Inflection

First and second declension of ὠχρός; ὠχρᾱ́; ὠχρόν (Attic)

Number		Singular				Dual				Plural
Case/Gender		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative		ὠχρός ōkhrós	ὠχρᾱ́ ōkhrā́	ὠχρόν ōkhrón		ὠχρώ ōkhrṓ	ὠχρᾱ́ ōkhrā́	ὠχρώ ōkhrṓ		ὠχροί ōkhroí	ὠχραί ōkhraí	ὠχρᾰ́ ōkhrá
Genitive		ὠχροῦ ōkhroû	ὠχρᾶς ōkhrâs	ὠχροῦ ōkhroû		ὠχροῖν ōkhroîn	ὠχραῖν ōkhraîn	ὠχροῖν ōkhroîn		ὠχρῶν ōkhrôn	ὠχρῶν ōkhrôn	ὠχρῶν ōkhrôn
Dative		ὠχρῷ ōkhrôi	ὠχρᾷ ōkhrâi	ὠχρῷ ōkhrôi		ὠχροῖν ōkhroîn	ὠχραῖν ōkhraîn	ὠχροῖν ōkhroîn		ὠχροῖς ōkhroîs	ὠχραῖς ōkhraîs	ὠχροῖς ōkhroîs
Accusative		ὠχρόν ōkhrón	ὠχρᾱ́ν ōkhrā́n	ὠχρόν ōkhrón		ὠχρώ ōkhrṓ	ὠχρᾱ́ ōkhrā́	ὠχρώ ōkhrṓ		ὠχρούς ōkhroús	ὠχρᾱ́ς ōkhrā́s	ὠχρᾰ́ ōkhrá
Vocative		ὠχρέ ōkhré	ὠχρᾱ́ ōkhrā́	ὠχρόν ōkhrón		ὠχρώ ōkhrṓ	ὠχρᾱ́ ōkhrā́	ὠχρώ ōkhrṓ		ὠχροί ōkhroí	ὠχραί ōkhraí	ὠχρᾰ́ ōkhrá
Derived forms		Adverb				Comparative				Superlative
		ὠχρῶς ōkhrôs				ὠχρότερος ōkhróteros				ὠχρότᾰτος ōkhrótatos
Notes:		This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἔξωχρος (éxōkhros)
• ὤχρα (ṓkhra)
• ὠχραίνω (ōkhraínō)
• ὠχραντικός (ōkhrantikós)
• ὠχράω (ōkhráō)
• ὠχρία (ōkhría)
• ὠχρίας (ōkhrías)
• ὠχρίασις (ōkhríasis)
• ὠχριάω (ōkhriáō)
• ὠχροειδής (ōkhroeidḗs)
• ὠχρόλευκος (ōkhróleukos)
• ὠχρομέλας (ōkhromélas)
• ὠχρόμματος (ōkhrómmatos)
• ὠχρόξανθος (ōkhróxanthos)
• ὠχροπελιός (ōkhropeliós)
• ὠχροποιός (ōkhropoiós)
• ὦχρος (ôkhros)
• ὠχροσύνη (ōkhrosúnē)
• ὠχρότης (ōkhrótēs)
• ὤχρωμα (ṓkhrōma)

 

Descendants

• Greek: ωχρός (ochrós)

Further reading

• ὠχρός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὠχρός in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ὠχρός 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