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οὖρος

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: οὖρος οὔρου

Structure: οὐρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. a fair wind, the wind, to a fair one, down, with) the, swept before the wind, the wind
  2. a fair time

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

  • ἀλλ’ ὁπόταν Θρῃκῶν Σκυθέων τ’ ἐπιβήσεται οὔρουσ, ἔνθα διχῆ τὸ μὲν ἔνθα μετ’ ἠῴην ἅλα βάλλει τῇδ’ ὕδωρ, τὸ δ’ ὄπισθε βαθὺν διὰ κόλπον ἱήσιν σχιζόμενοσ πόντου Τρινακρίου εἰσανέχοντα, γαίῃ ὃσ ὑμετέρῃ παρακέκλιται, εἰ ἐτεὸν δὴ ὑμετέρησ γαίησ Ἀχελώιοσ ἐξανίησιν. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 5:27)
  • οὔρουσ μὴν ἴσασι φυτοσκάφοι οἱ πολύεργοι, ἐσ ληνοὺσ δ’ ἱκνεῦνται, ἐπὴν θέροσ ὡρ́ιον ἔλθῃ. (Theocritus, Idylls, 10)
  • τοὶ δ’ ἀλλήλοισι κέλευον ἅπτεσθαι νηῶν ἠδ’ ἑλκέμεν εἰσ ἅλα δῖαν, οὐρούσ τ’ ἐξεκάθαιρον· (Homer, Iliad, Book 2 12:5)
  • καὶ τὴν μὲν Ιὤνων γνώμην ἀπίεμεν, ἡμεῖσ δὲ ὧδε καὶ περὶ τούτων λέγομεν, Αἴγυπτον μὲν πᾶσαν εἶναι ταύτην τὴν ὑπ’ Αἰγυπτίων οἰκεομένην κατά περ Κιλικίην τὴν ὑπὸ Κιλίκων καὶ Ἀσσυρίην τὴν ὑπὸ Ἀσσυρίων, οὔρισμα δὲ Ἀσίῃ καὶ Λιβύῃ οἴδαμεν οὐδὲν ἐὸν ὀρθῷ λόγῳ εἰ μὴ τοὺσ Αἰγυπτίων οὔρουσ. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 17 2:1)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ τοῖσι Ὑπερβορέοισι τοὺσ ἀποπεμφθέντασ ὀπίσω οὐκ ἀπονοστέειν, δεινὰ ποιευμένουσ εἰ σφέασ αἰεὶ καταλάμψεται ἀποστέλλοντασ μὴ ἀποδέκεσθαι, οὕτω δὴ φέροντασ ἐσ τοὺσ οὔρουσ τὰ ἱρὰ ἐνδεδεμένα ἐν πυρῶν καλάμῃ τοὺσ πλησιοχώρουσ ἐπισκήπτειν κελεύοντασ προπέμπειν σφέα ἀπὸ ἑωυτῶν ἐσ ἄλλο ἔθνοσ. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 33 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. a fair time

Derived

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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