οὐραχός
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Ancient Greek[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Ultimately from οὐρά (ourá, “tail, rear”). Compare also οὐρίαχος (ouríakhos, “butt-end of the spear”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /uː.ra.kʰós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /u.raˈkʰos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /u.raˈxos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /u.raˈxos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /u.raˈxos/
Noun[edit]
οὐρᾰχός • (ourakhós) m (genitive οὐρᾰχοῦ); second declension
- (anatomy) urachus, a foetal organ connected with the bladder
- apex of the heart
- (in the plural) outer ends of the eyebrows
- point of a drill or borer
Inflection[edit]
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nominative | ὁ οὐρᾰχός ho ourakhós |
τὼ οὐρᾰχώ tṑ ourakhṓ |
οἱ οὐρᾰχοί hoi ourakhoí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ οὐρᾰχοῦ toû ourakhoû |
τοῖν οὐρᾰχοῖν toîn ourakhoîn |
τῶν οὐρᾰχῶν tôn ourakhôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ οὐρᾰχῷ tôi ourakhôi |
τοῖν οὐρᾰχοῖν toîn ourakhoîn |
τοῖς οὐρᾰχοῖς toîs ourakhoîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν οὐρᾰχόν tòn ourakhón |
τὼ οὐρᾰχώ tṑ ourakhṓ |
τοὺς οὐρᾰχούς toùs ourakhoús | ||||||||||
Vocative | οὐρᾰχέ ourakhé |
οὐρᾰχώ ourakhṓ |
οὐρᾰχοί ourakhoí | ||||||||||
Notes: |
|
Derived terms[edit]
- οὐραχοειδής (ourakhoeidḗs)
Descendants[edit]
- → English: urachus
References[edit]
- “οὐραχός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- οὐραχός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN