urus

See also: Urus and uruş

English

Etymology 1

From Latin ūrus. Doublet of ure (“aurochs”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjʊəɹəs/

Noun

urus (plural uri or uruses)

1. The aurochs.
   • 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book VIII.] Of Scythian beasts, and those that are bred in the North parts.”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], 1st tome, London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, pages 199–200:

     Howbeit, that country bringeth forth certain kinds of goodly great wild bœufes: to wit, the Biſontes, mained with a collar, like Lions: and the Vri, a mightie ſtrong beaſt, and a ſwift: which the ignorant people call Buffles, whereas indeed the Buffle is bred in Affrica, and carieth ſome reſemblance of a calfe rather, or a ſtag.

   • 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:

     He also brought forth two large drinking cups, made out of the horn of the urus, and hooped with silver.

   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 123:

     Eduard Hahn has postulated that the motive for capturing and maintaining the urus in the captive state was to have available a supply, for sacrificial purposes, of the animal sacred to the lunar mother goddess worshipped over an immense area of the ancient world.

Related terms

• aurochs (perhaps related)
• ure

Etymology 2

Noun

urus (plural uruses)

1. Synonym of jatra (“annual village festival in India”)

Related terms

• urs

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay urus, from Classical Malay hurus, urus.

Verb

urus

1. to manage (to direct or be in charge)
2. to manage (to handle or control a situation or job)

Synonyms

• rawat
• pelihara, piara
• atur

Irish

Adjective

urus

1. Obsolete form of furasta.

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
urus	n-urus	hurus	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Latin

Etymology

According to Julius Caesar, of Celtic origin. Perhaps indirectly related to Proto-Germanic *ūraz.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈuː.rus/, [ˈuːrʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈu.rus/, [ˈuːrus]

Noun

ūrus m (genitive ūrī); second declension

1. an aurochs

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ūrus	ūrī
Genitive	ūrī	ūrōrum
Dative	ūrō	ūrīs
Accusative	ūrum	ūrōs
Ablative	ūrō	ūrīs
Vocative	ūre	ūrī

Descendants

• → Ancient Greek: οὖρος (oûros)
• Catalan: ur
• → English: ure, urus
• French: ure
• Italian: uro
• Portuguese: uro
• Spanish: uro

References

• “urus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “urus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• urus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Malay

Pronunciation

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /uros/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /urʊs/
• Rhymes: -uros, -ros, -os
• Rhymes: -us

Verb

urus (Jawi spelling اوروس)

1. to manage (to direct or be in charge)
2. to manage (to handle or control a situation or job)

Derived terms

• urusan
• berurus
• mengurus
• menguruskan
• pengurus
• pengurusan
• terurus

Descendants

• Indonesian: urus
• Komodo: uru
• Makasar: urusuʔ
• Manggarai: urus

Further reading

• “urus” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.