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ὀρεύς?

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration: oreus

Principal Part: ὀρεύς

Structure: ὀρευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: From ὄρος a mountain, mules being much used in mountainous countries.

Sense

  1. a mule

Declension

Third declension

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

  • τὸ δὲ ὕδωρ ἠλαττονοῦτο ἕως τοῦ δεκάτου μηνός. καὶ ἐν τῷ δεκάτῳ μηνί, τῇ πρώτῃ τοῦ μηνός, ὤφθησαν αἱ κεφαλαὶ τῶν ὀρέων. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 8:5)
  • καὶ εἶπε. λαβὲ τὸν υἱόν σου τὸν ἀγαπητόν, ὃν ἠγάπησας, τὸν Ἰσαάκ, καὶ πορεύθητι εἰς τὴν γῆν τὴν ὑψηλὴν καὶ ἀνένεγκον αὐτὸν ἐκεῖ εἰς ὁλοκάρπωσιν ἐφ᾿ ἓν τῶν ὀρέων, ὧν ἄν σοι εἴπω. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 22:2)
  • εὐλογίας πατρός σου καὶ μητρός σου. ὑπερίσχυσεν ὑπὲρ εὐλογίας ὀρέων μονίμων καὶ ἐπ᾿ εὐλογίαις θινῶν ἀενάων. ἔσονται ἐπὶ κεφαλὴν Ἰωσὴφ καὶ ἐπὶ κορυφῆς ὧν ἡγήσατο ἀδελφῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 49:26)
  • Μὴ ἔσθετε ἐπὶ τῶν ὀρέων καὶ οὐκ οἰωνιεῖσθε, οὐδὲ ὀρνιθοσκοπήσεσθε. (Septuagint, Liber Leviticus 19:26)
  • καὶ ἀναλαβὼν τὴν παραβολὴν αὐτοῦ εἶπεν. ἐκ Μεσοποταμίας μετεπέμψατό με Βαλάκ, βασιλεὺς Μωάβ, ἐξ ὀρέων ἀπ ἀνατολῶν λέγων. δεῦρο ἄρασαί μοι τὸν Ἰακὼβ καὶ δεῦρο ἐπικατάρασαί μοι τὸν Ἰσραήλ. (Septuagint, Liber Numeri 23:7)
  • 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

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

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