ὠρυγή

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewg- (“to roar”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ɔː.ryː.ɡɛ̌ː/ → /o.ryˈʝi/ → /o.riˈʝi/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ɔː.ryː.ɡɛ̌ː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /o.ryˈɡe̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /o.ryˈʝi/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /o.ryˈʝi/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /o.riˈʝi/

Noun

ὠρῡγή • (ōrūgḗ) f (genitive ὠρῡγῆς); first declension

1. a howling of wolves, dogs
   • 300 CE – 500 CE, Hermesianax, Collected Works 5.72
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Gaius Marius 20
   • Julius Pollux, Onomasticon 5.87

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ὠρῡγή; τῆς ὠρῡγῆς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ὠρῡγή hē ōrūgḗ	τὼ ὠρῡγᾱ́ tṑ ōrūgā́	αἱ ὠρῡγαί hai ōrūgaí
Genitive	τῆς ὠρῡγῆς tês ōrūgês	τοῖν ὠρῡγαῖν toîn ōrūgaîn	τῶν ὠρῡγῶν tôn ōrūgôn
Dative	τῇ ὠρῡγῇ têi ōrūgêi	τοῖν ὠρῡγαῖν toîn ōrūgaîn	ταῖς ὠρῡγαῖς taîs ōrūgaîs
Accusative	τὴν ὠρῡγήν tḕn ōrūgḗn	τὼ ὠρῡγᾱ́ tṑ ōrūgā́	τᾱ̀ς ὠρῡγᾱ́ς tā̀s ōrūgā́s
Vocative	ὠρῡγή ōrūgḗ	ὠρῡγᾱ́ ōrūgā́	ὠρῡγαί ōrūgaí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Related terms

• ὠρυγμός (ōrugmós, “roar”)
• ὤρυγμα (ṓrugma, “roar of the waves”)

Further reading

• “ὠρυγή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὠρυγή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ὠρυγή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette