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ὀρός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀρός ὀροῦ

Structure: ὀρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. the watery, serous part of milk, whey

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὀρός ὀρώ ὀροί
Genitive ὀροῦ ὀροῖν ὀρῶν
Dative ὀρῷ ὀροῖν ὀροῖς
Accusative ὀρόν ὀρώ ὀρούς
Vocative ὀρέ ὀρώ ὀροί

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

  • ὁρ́οι μὲν ἀγορᾶσ εἰσιν οἵδε τῆσ ἐμῆσ. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Episode1)
  • οὗτοι τῆσ πατρίδοσ ἡμῶν ὁρ́οι εἰσί, καὶ οὐδεὶσ οὔτε φυγὰσ ἐν τούτοισ οὔτε ξένοσ οὔτ’ ἀλλοδαπόσ, ὅπου ταὐτὸ πῦρ ὕδωρ ἀήρ, ἄρχοντεσ οἱ αὐτοὶ καὶ διοικηταὶ καὶ πρυτάνεισ, ἥλιοσ σελήνη φωσφόροσ· (Plutarch, De exilio, section 5 7:3)
  • ἴστορεσ θεοὶ Ἄγραυλοσ, Ἑστία, Ἐνυώ, Ἐνυάλιοσ, Ἄρησ καὶ Ἀθηνᾶ Ἀρεία, Ζεύσ, Θαλλώ, Αὐξώ, Ἡγεμόνη, Ἡρακλῆσ, ὁρ́οι τῆσ πατρίδοσ, πυροί, κριθαί, ἄμπελοι, ἐλάαι, συκαῖ . (Lycurgus, Speeches, 101:4)
  • ὁρ́οι δ’ εἰσὶ τῆσ μὲν ἀριθμητικῆσ σ’ καὶ θ’ καὶ ιβ’· (Plutarch, De animae procreatione in Timaeo, section 15 3:1)
  • ἁρμονίαν αὗται δ’ ἀνιέμεναι τὰ θεῖα εἴρουσι καὶ κατᾴδουσι τῆσ ἱερᾶσ περιόδου καὶ χορείασ ὀκτάχορδον ἐμμέλειαν ὀκτὼ γὰρ ἦσαν καὶ οἱ πρῶτοι τῶν διπλασίων καὶ τριπλασίων ὁρ́οι λόγων, ἑκατέρᾳ προσαριθμουμένησ μερίδι τῆσ μονάδοσ. (Plutarch, De animae procreatione in Timaeo, section 32 8:1)

Synonyms

  1. the watery

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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