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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

  • τί μὲν γὰρ ἂν σὺ ἀπολαύσειασ τῶν ὀρῶν; (Lucian, Dearum judicium, (no name) 13:4)
  • ὁρᾶτε, ὦ Ἑρμῆ καὶ Φιλοσοφία, δύο μὲν ὄρη μέγιστα καὶ κάλλιστα ὀρῶν ἁπάντων Αἷμόσ ἐστιν τὸ μεῖζον, ἡ καταντικρὺ δὲ Ῥοδόπη πεδίον δ’ ὑποπεπταμένον πάμφορον, ἀπὸ τῶν προπόδων ἑκατέρων εὐθὺσ ἀρξάμενον, καί τινασ λόφουσ τρεῖσ πάνυ καλοὺσ ἀνεστηκότασ, οὐκ ἀμόρφουσ τὴν τραχύτητα, οἱο͂ν ἀκροπόλεισ πολλὰσ τῆσ ὑποκειμένησ πόλεωσ. (Lucian, Fugitivi, (no name) 25:1)
  • ἀλλὰ σύ, ὦ τολμηρότατε, καὶ τὴν Ῥέαν αὐτὴν γραῦν ἤδη καὶ μητέρα τοσούτων θεῶν οὖσαν ἀνέπεισασ παιδεραστεῖν καὶ τὸ Φρύγιον μειράκιον ποθεῖν, καὶ νῦν ἐκείνη μέμηνεν ὑπὸ σοῦ καὶ ζευξαμένη τοὺσ λέοντασ, παραλαβοῦσα καὶ τοὺσ Κορύβαντασ ἅτε μανικοὺσ καὶ αὐτοὺσ ὄντασ, ἄνω καὶ κάτω τὴν Ἴδην περιπολοῦσιν, ἡ μὲν ὀλολύζουσα ἐπὶ τῷ Ἄττῃ, οἱ Κορύβαντεσ δὲ ὁ μὲν αὐτῶν τέμνεται ξίφει τὸν πῆχυν, ὁ δὲ ἀνεὶσ τὴν κόμην ἱέται μεμηνὼσ διὰ τῶν ὀρῶν, ὁ δὲ αὐλεῖ τῷ κέρατι, ὁ δὲ ἐπιβομβεῖ τῷ τυμπάνῳ ἢ ἐπικτυπεῖ τῷ κυμβάλῳ, καὶ ὅλωσ θόρυβοσ καὶ μανία τὰ ἐν τῇ Ἴδῃ ἅπαντά ἐστι. (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 2:4)
  • Τὸ μὲν ὅλον οὐδὲ καταλαβεῖν αὐτὴν οἱο͂́ν τε φεύγουσαν ἀεὶ διὰ τῶν ὀρῶν· (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 4:8)
  • ἀλλ’ εἰσ ἀπόπατον ᾤχετο στρατιὰν λαβών, κἄχεζεν ὀκτὼ μῆνασ ἐπὶ χρυσῶν ὀρῶν. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Prologue 3:10)
  • εἰ ταπεινώσεισ τὰσ θυγατέρασ μου, εἰ λήψῃ γυναῖκασ πρὸσ ταῖσ θυγατράσι μου, ὅρα, οὐδεὶσ μεθ̓ ἡμῶν ἐστιν ὁρῶν. Θεὸσ μάρτυσ μεταξὺ ἐμοῦ καὶ μεταξὺ σοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 31:50)
  • καὶ ἀναλαβὼν τὴν παραβολὴν αὐτοῦ εἶπε. φησὶ Βαλαὰμ υἱὸσ Βεώρ, φησὶν ὁ ἄνθρωποσ ὁ ἀληθινῶσ ὁρῶν, (Septuagint, Liber Numeri 24:3)
  • καὶ ἀναλαβὼν τὴν παραβολὴν αὐτοῦ εἶπε. φυσὶ Βαλαὰμ υἱὸσ Βεώρ, φησὶν ὁ ἄνθρωποσ ὁ ἀληθινῶσ ὁρῶν, (Septuagint, Liber Numeri 24:15)
  • ἓν τοῦ ἑνὸσ ἐστερέωσε τὰ ἀγαθά, καὶ τίσ πλησθήσεται ὁρῶν δόξαν αὐτοῦ̣ (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 42:25)
  • καὶ εἶπεν Ἀμασίασ πρὸσ Ἀμώσ. ὁ ὁρῶν, βάδιζε ἐκχώρησον σὺ εἰσ γῆν Ἰούδα καὶ ἐκεῖ καταβίου καὶ ἐκεῖ προφητεύσεισ, (Septuagint, Prophetia Amos 7:12)

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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