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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

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

  • ὦ μάταιοι, τῆσ ἀνοίασ, οὐκ εἰδότεσ ἡλίκοισ ὁρ́οισ διακέκριται τὰ νεκρῶν καὶ τὰ ζώντων πράγματα καὶ οἱᾶ τὰ παρ’ ἡμῖν ἐστι καὶ ὅτι κάτθαν’ ὁμῶσ ὃ τ’ ἄτυμβοσ ἀνὴρ ὃσ τ’ ἔλλαχε τύμβου, ἐν δὲ ἰῇ τιμῇ Ἶροσ κρείων τ’ Ἀγαμέμνων Θερσίτῃ; (Lucian, Contemplantes, (no name) 22:12)
  • τυγχάνω γὰρ ἐν μέσοισ Θρῄκησ ὁρ́οισ ἀπών, ὅτ’ ἦλθεσ δεῦρ’· (Euripides, Hecuba, episode7)
  • ὁρ́οισ ὑγροῖσιν, ὡσ λέγουσ’, ὡρισμένη. (Euripides, Ion, episode 1:32)
  • Ἀπιδανὸν ἀμφὶ ποταμὸν ἐν Φθίασ ὁρ́οισ. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode, anapests 3:33)
  • ὀμνύουσι γὰρ ὁρ́οισ χρήσασθαι τῆσ Ἀττικῆσ πυροῖσ, κριθαῖσ, ἀμπέλοισ, ἐλαίαισ, οἰκείαν ποιεῖσθαι διδασκόμενοι τὴν ἥμερον καὶ καρποφόρον. (Plutarch, , chapter 15 4:2)

Synonyms

  1. the watery

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

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