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οὖρος

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: οὖρος οὔρου

Structure: οὐρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. a trench or channel

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

  • καὶ εἶπε πρὸσ αὐτοὺσ Ραψάκησ. μὴ ἐπὶ τὸν κύριόν σου καὶ πρὸσ σὲ ἀπέστειλέ με ὁ κύριόσ μου λαλῆσαι τοὺσ λόγουσ τούτουσ̣ οὐχὶ ἐπὶ τοὺσ ἄνδρασ τοὺσ καθημένουσ ἐπὶ τοῦ τείχουσ τοῦ φαγεῖν τὴν κόπρον αὐτῶν καὶ πιεῖν τὸ οὖρον αὐτῶν μεθ̓ ὑμῶν ἅμα̣ (Septuagint, Liber II Regum 18:27)
  • καὶ εἶπε πρὸσ αὐτοὺσ Ραψάκησ. μὴ πρὸσ τὸν Κύριον ὑμῶν ἢ πρὸσ ὑμᾶσ ἀπέσταλκέ με ὁ κύριόσ μου λαλῆσαι τοὺσ λόγουσ τούτουσ̣ οὐχὶ πρὸσ τοὺσ ἀνθρώπουσ τοὺσ καθημένουσ ἐπὶ τῷ τείχει, ἵνα φάγωσι κόπρον καὶ πίωσιν οὖρον μεθ̓ ὑμῶν ἅμα̣ (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 36:12)
  • μένουσι δὲ πρύμνηθεν οὖρον, ὡσ δεκασπόρῳ χρόνῳ ἀλόχουσ τε καὶ τέκν’ εἰσίδωσιν ἄσμενοι, οἳ τήνδ’ ἐπεστράτευσαν Ἕλληνεσ πόλιν. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode 1:9)
  • τὴν δὴ τοσαύτην εὔνοιαν αὐτῶν καὶ τὴν ἐν τοῖσ δεινοῖσ κοινωνίαν καὶ τὸ πιστὸν καὶ φιλέταιρον καὶ τὸ ἀληθὲσ καὶ βέβαιον τοῦ πρὸσ ἀλλήλουσ ἔρωτοσ, οὐκ ἀνθρώπινα ταῦτα ᾠήθημεν εἶναι, ἀλλά τινοσ γνώμησ βελτίονοσ ἢ κατὰ τοὺσ πολλοὺσ τούτουσ ἀνθρώπουσ, οἳ μέχρι μὲν κατ’ οὖρον ὁ πλοῦσ εἰή τοῖσ φίλοισ,^ ἀγανακτοῦσιν εἰ μὴ ἐπ’ ἴσησ κοινωνήσουσιν τῶν ἡδέων, εἰ δέ τι καὶ μικρὸν ^ ἀντιπνεύσειεν ^ αὐτοῖσ, οἴχονται μόνουσ τοῖσ κινδύνοισ ἀπολιπόντεσ. (Lucian, Toxaris vel amicitia, (no name) 7:1)
  • "Λασύρτασ ὁ Λασιώνιοσ οὐδὲν προσεδεῖτο ποτοῦ καθάπερ οἱ ἄλλαι, οὖρον δὲ προίετο καθάπερ πάντεσ ἄνθρωποι, καὶ πολλοὶ διὰ φιλοτιμίαν ἐπεχείρησαν παρατηρῆσαι καὶ ἀπέστησαν πρὸ τοῦ εὑρεῖν τὸ πραττόμενον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 22 2:3)

Synonyms

  1. a trench or channel

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