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ὀρεύς

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀρεύς

Structure: ὀρευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: From o)/ros a mountain, mules being much used in mountainous countries.

Sense

  1. a mule

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὀρεύς ὀρή ὀρής
Genitive ὀρέως ὀρέοιν ὀρέων
Dative ὀρεί ὀρέοιν ὀρεῦσιν*
Accusative ὀρέα ὀρή ὀρέᾱς
Vocative ὀρεύ ὀρή ὀρής

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • παντοδαπὸν γοῦν γίγνεται τοτὲ μέν γε βοῦσ, νυνὶ δ’ ὀρεύσ, τοτὲ δ’ αὖ γυνὴ ὡραιοτάτη τισ. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Prologue, iambics30)
  • ὥσ μοι καὶ τέκτων μέγ’ ἀπέχθεται, ὅστισ ἐρευνῇ ἶσον ὄρευσ κορυφᾷ τελέσαι δόμον εὐρυμέδοντοσ, καὶ Μοισᾶν ὄρνιχεσ, ὅσοι ποτὶ Χῖον ἀοιδὸν ἀντία κοκκύζοντεσ ἐτώσια μοχθίζοντι. (Theocritus, Idylls, 25)

Synonyms

  1. a mule

Similar forms

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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