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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

  • ἡ ἄρα τοῦ α ὁρ́ου τῷ γ καὶ ἡ τοῦ β τῷ δ σύζευξισ τὸ ἐν διανομῇ δίκαιόν ἐστι, καὶ μέσον τὸ δίκαιον τοῦτ’ ἐστί, <τὸ δ’ ἄδικον> τὸ παρὰ τὸ ἀνάλογον· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 5 43:5)
  • τὸ δὲ δὴ σίτων τε καὶ ποτῶν ἐπιθυμητικὸν τῆσ ψυχῆσ καὶ ὅσων ἔνδειαν διὰ τὴν τοῦ σώματοσ ἴσχει φύσιν, τοῦτο εἰσ τὸ μεταξὺ τῶν τε φρενῶν καὶ τοῦ πρὸσ τὸν ὀμφαλὸν ὁρ́ου κατῴκισαν, οἱο͂ν φάτνην ἐν ἅπαντι τούτῳ τῷ τόπῳ τῇ τοῦ σώματοσ τροφῇ τεκτηνάμενοι· (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 346:1)
  • ἐάν τίσ τινα τῶν ἀνδροφόνων τῶν ἐξεληλυθότων, ὧν τὰ χρήματα ἐπίτιμα, πέρα ὁρ́ου ἐλαύνῃ ἢ φέρῃ ἢ ἄγῃ, τὰ ἴσα ὀφείλειν ὅσα περ ἂν ἐν τῇ ἡμεδαπῇ δράσῃ. (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 58:1)
  • ἐὰν πέρα ὁρ́ου φησὶν ἐλαύνῃ ἢ φέρῃ ἢ ἄγῃ. (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 61:3)
  • τοῦτο δ’ ἐστὶν τί, τὸ πέρα ὁρ́ου; (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 61:4)

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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