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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

  • "ἐὰν δέ σοι παρῇ κοσκίνια μικρά, ἐπίβαλε εἰσ αὐτὰ τὸ σκεῦοσ, καὶ ἐά ἐκρεῖν τὸν ὀρόν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 5725)
  • καὶ τοῦτο δ’ ἐστὶν ὁμοίωσ ἀγγεῖον ξύλινον στρογγύλον γάλα καὶ ὀρὸν δεχόμενον, ὡσ καὶ παρ’ Ὁμήρῳ λέγεται· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 1012)
  • τόν κ’ εἴ μοι δοίησ σταθμῶν ῥυτῆρα γενέσθαι σηκοκόρον τ’ ἔμεναι θαλλόν τ’ ἐρίφοισι φορῆναι, καί κεν ὀρὸν πίνων μεγάλην ἐπιγουνίδα θεῖτο. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 17 32:4)
  • ἐρύθειαν δὲ τὰ Γάδειρα ἐοίκε λέγειν ὁ Φερεκύδησ, ἐν ᾗ τὰ περὶ τὸν Γηρυόνην μυθεύουσιν, ἄλλοι δὲ τὴν παραβεβλημένην ταύτῃ τῇ πόλει νῆσον πορθμῷ σταδιαίῳ διειργομένην, τὸ εὔβοτον ὁρῶντεσ, ὅτι τῶν νεμομένων αὐτόθι προβάτων τὸ γάλα ὀρὸν οὐ ποιεῖ. (Strabo, Geography, book 3, chapter 5 8:1)
  • καὶ ἔδωκεν ὁ Θεὸσ ὅρον λέγων. ἐν τῇ αὔριον ποιήσει Κύριοσ τὸ ρῆμα τοῦτο ἐπὶ τῆσ γῆσ. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 9:5)
  • καὶ εἶπέ μοι ὁ βασιλεὺσ καὶ ἡ παλλακὴ ἡ καθημένη ἐχόμενα αὐτοῦ. ἕωσ πότε ἔσται ἡ πορεία σου καὶ πότε ἐπιστρέψεισ̣ καὶ ἠγαθύνθη ἐνώπιον τοῦ βασιλέωσ, καὶ ἀπέστειλέ με, καὶ ἔδωκα αὐτῷ ὅρον, (Septuagint, Liber Nehemiae 2:6)
  • τάχα γὰρ ἂν εἰε͂́ν τινεσ αἱ ἐμὲ διαλανθάνουσαι τοιαῦται γραφαί, τὸ δὲ τῆσ ἀπάντων ἱστορίασ ὁρ́ον ἑαυτὸν ποιεῖν καὶ περὶ τοῦ μὴ γεγονέναι τι τῶν δυνατῶν γενέσθαι λέγειν αὔθαδεσ πάνυ καὶ οὐ πόρρω μανίασ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De antiquis oratoribus, chapter 4 1:3)
  • καίτοι Αἰσχύλοσ ἐν Προμηθεῖ Λυομένῳ τὸν Φᾶσιν ὁρ́ον τῆσ Εὐρώπησ καὶ τῆσ Ἀσίασ ποιεῖ. (Arrian, Periplus Ponti Euxini, chapter 19 2:3)
  • καῖέ τε δαιδαλέασ ἐκ λάρνακοσ ὠκύμορον φιτρὸν ἀγκλαύσασα, τὸν δὴ μοῖρ’ ἐπέκλωσεν τότε ζωᾶσ ὁρ́ον ἁμετέρασ ἔμμεν. (Bacchylides, , epinicians, ode 5 11:2)

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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