οὖρον

Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ôː.ron/ → /ˈu.ron/ → /ˈu.ron/

• (5^th BC Attic) IPA^(key): /ôː.ron/
• (1^st BC Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈu.ron/
• (4^th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈu.ron/
• (10^th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈu.ron/
• (15^th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈu.ron/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂worsom, from *h₂wers- (“to rain, drip”). Cf. *weh₁r- (“water, liquid, milk”). Compare Latin ūrīna.

Noun

οὖρον • (oûron) n (genitive οὔρου); second declension

1. urine
   • Herodotus, Histories 2.111

Inflection

Second declension of οὖρον, οὔρου

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	οὖρον	οὔρω	οὖρᾰ
Genitive	οὔρου	οὔροιν	οὔρων
Dative	οὔρῳ	οὔροιν	οὔροις
Accusative	οὖρον	οὔρω	οὖρᾰ
Vocative	οὖρον	οὔρω	οὖρᾰ
Dialectal forms:
Notes:

Derived terms

• οὐρέω (ouréō)
  • οὐρήθρα (ourḗthra)

Descendants

• French: urée
  • New Latin: urea
  • Portuguese: ureia
• Greek: ούρο (oúro), ούρα (oúra)

Etymology 2

Perhaps related to ὄρνυμι (órnumi, “excite”)

Noun

οὖρον • (oûron) n (genitive οὔρου); second declension

1. range, space
   • Homer, Iliad 23.431

Inflection

Second declension of οὖρον, οὔρου

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	οὖρον	οὔρω	οὖρᾰ
Genitive	οὔρου	οὔροιν	οὔρων
Dative	οὔρῳ	οὔροιν	οὔροις
Accusative	οὖρον	οὔρω	οὖρᾰ
Vocative	οὖρον	οὔρω	οὖρᾰ
Dialectal forms:
Notes:

Etymology 3

Noun

οὖρον • (oûron)

1. accusative singular of οὖρος (oûros)

References

• οὖρον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• οὖρον in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• οὖρον in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «οὖρον» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «οὖρον» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963