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ὅρος

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὅρος ὅρους

Structure: ὁρο (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a mountain, hill
  2. mountain chain
  3. district, sector, precinct, parish

Declension

Third 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 δὲ τοῖν δυοῖν ὁρ́οιν τρίτον προσγένηται ἑξῆσ, αὐτὰ μὲν τρία ἔσται, αἱ δὲ ἅψεισ δύο. (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 299:11)
  • ἐκ δὲ τῶν τῆσ πόλεωσ ἀγώνων καὶ ἀποστόλων εἰσ τοῦτο κατῆλθεν ὥσθ’ ὡμολόγησε δυοῖν μὲν ὁρ́οιν εἴσω μηκέτι πλευσεῖσθαι, πρὸσ μεσημβρίαν μὲν Χελιδονέασ, πρὸσ δὲ ἄρκτον Κυανέασ θέμενοσ, θαλάττησ δ’ ἀφέξειν ἴσον πανταχῆ σταδίουσ πεντακοσίουσ· (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 63:10)
  • σκέψαι δὴ αὐτὸν μὴ μόνον ὡσ τὴν πόλιν καὶ τὴν χώραν ἐφύλαξεν, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐκ δυοῖν τοῖν ἐσχάτοιν ὁρ́οιν, ὅπωσ τοῖσ τε Ἕλλησι προσηνέχθη καὶ ὅπωσ τοῖσ βαρβάροισ· (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 40:1)
  • τὴν δὲ πόλιν ἱδρυμένην ἐφ’ ὕψουσ δεικνύουσι μεταξὺ δυεῖν ὀροῖν, Ὄσσησ καὶ Ὀλύμπου, ὁμωνύμων τοῖσ ἐν Θετταλίᾳ. (Strabo, Geography, Book 8, chapter 3 62:10)
  • ἐξελόντασ δὲ τὴν Χαναναίων γῆν καὶ πᾶσαν διαφθείραντασ τὴν ἐν αὐτῇ πληθὺν καθὰ πρέπει, τὸν βωμόν τε ἀναστῆσαι πρὸσ ἥλιον ἀνίσχοντα τετραμμένον οὐ πόρρω τῆσ Σικιμίων πόλεωσ ἐμπεριάγειν μεταξὺ δυοῖν ὀροῖν, Γριζαίου μὲν τοῦ ἐκ δεξιῶν κειμένου, τοῦ δ’ ἐκ λαιῶν Βουλῆ προσαγορευομένου, μερισθεῖσαν δὲ τὴν στρατιὰν καθ’ ἓξ φυλὰσ ἐπὶ τοῖν δυοῖν ὀροῖν ἀναστῆναι καὶ σὺν αὐτοῖσ Λευίτασ τε καὶ ἱερέασ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 4 396:1)

Synonyms

  1. a mountain

  2. mountain chain

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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