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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)
  • καὶ ἐγένετο ἡ κατοίκησισ αὐτῶν ἀπὸ Μασσῆ ἕωσ ἐλθεῖν εἰσ Σαφηρά, ὄροσ ἀνατολῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 10:30)
  • καὶ ἀπέστη ἐκεῖθεν εἰσ τὸ ὄροσ κατὰ ἀνατολὰσ Βαιθὴλ καὶ ἔστησεν ἐκεῖ τὴν σκηνὴν αὐτοῦ, Βαιθὴλ κατὰ θάλασσαν καὶ Ἀγγαὶ κατὰ ἀνατολάσ. καὶ ᾠκοδόμησεν ἐκεῖ θυσιαστήριον τῷ Κυρίῳ καὶ ἐπεκαλέσατο ἐπὶ τῷ ὀνόματι Κυρίου. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 12:8)
  • καὶ ἐγένετο, ἡνίκα ἐξήγαγον αὐτοὺσ ἔξω καὶ εἶπαν. σῴζων σῷζε τὴν σεαυτοῦ ψυχήν. μὴ περιβλέψῃ εἰσ τὰ ὀπίσω, μηδὲ στῇσ ἐν πάσῃ τῇ περιχώρῳ. εἰσ τὸ ὄροσ σῴζου, μήποτε συμπαραληφθῇσ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 19:17)
  • ἐπειδὴ εὗρεν ὁ παῖσ σου ἔλεοσ ἐναντίον σου καὶ ἐμεγάλυνασ τὴν δικαιοσύνην σου, ὃ ποιεῖσ ἐπ̓ ἐμὲ τοῦ ζῆν τὴν ψυχήν μου, ἐγὼ δὲ οὐ δυνήσομαι διασωθῆναι εἰσ τὸ ὄροσ, μήποτε καταλάβῃ με τὰ κακὰ καὶ ἀποθάνω. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 19:19)
  • καὶ ἀπέδρα αὐτὸσ καὶ τὰ αὐτοῦ πάντα καὶ διέβη τὸν ποταμὸν καὶ ὥρμησεν εἰσ τὸ ὄροσ Γαλαάδ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 31:21)

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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