οὖς

See also: ους, ουσ., -οῦς, and οὕς

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ὦς (ôs) — Doric, Koine

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓws. Cognate with Old English ēare (English ear), Latin auris, Old Armenian ունկն (unkn), Old Church Slavonic оухо (uxo), and Old Irish áu.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ûːs/ → /us/ → /us/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ûːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /us/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /us/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /us/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /us/

Noun

οὖς • (oûs) n (genitive ὠτός); third declension

1. (anatomy, zootomy) ear
2. hearing
3. (from resemblance to an ear):
   1. handle of a pitcher or cup
   2. (architecture) Synonym of πᾰρωτῐ́ς (parōtís).
   3. Ellipsis of οὖς Ἀ̆φροδῑ́της (oûs Aphrodī́tēs).: A kind of shellfish.
   4. (anatomy) auricle of the heart
   5. The name of part of a bandage.
   6. (figurative) spy

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ οὖς; τοῦ ὠτός (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Plural
Nominative	τὸ οὖς tò oûs	τᾰ̀ ὦτᾰ tà ôta
Genitive	τοῦ ὠτός toû ōtós	τῶν ὤτων tôn ṓtōn
Dative	τῷ ὠτῐ́ tôi ōtí	τοῖς ὠσῐ́ / ὠσῐ́ν toîs ōsí(n)
Accusative	τὸ οὖς tò oûs	τᾰ̀ ὦτᾰ tà ôta
Vocative	οὖς oûs	ὦτᾰ ôta
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ts.

Third declension of οὖς; οὔᾰτος (Epic)

Case / #	Singular	Plural
Nominative	οὖς oûs	οὔᾰτᾰ oúata
Genitive	οὔᾰτος oúatos	οὐάτων ouátōn
Dative	οὔᾰτῐ oúati	οὔᾰσῐ / οὔᾰσῐν / ὠσί / ὠσίν oúasi(n) / ōsí(n)
Accusative	οὖς oûs	οὔᾰτᾰ oúata
Vocative	οὖς oûs	οὔᾰτᾰ oúata
Notes:	Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms may be based on conjecture. Use with caution. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ts.

Derived terms

• ὠτεγχῠ́της (ōtenkhútēs)
• ὠτογλῠφῐ́ς (ōtogluphís)
• ὠτοειδής (ōtoeidḗs)
• ὠτοθλᾰδῐ́ᾱς (ōtothladíās)
• ὠτοκλᾰδῐ́ᾱς (ōtokladíās)
• ὠτοκοπέω (ōtokopéō)
• ὠτοκωφέω (ōtokōphéō)
• ὠτοκᾰ́τᾰξις (ōtokátaxis)
• ὠτολᾰβῐ́ς (ōtolabís)
• ὠτόλῐκνος (ōtóliknos)
• ὠτοπέτης (ōtopétēs)
• ὠτοπᾰ́ροχος (ōtopárokhos)
• ὠτόρρῠτος (ōtórrhutos)
• ὦτος (ôtos)
• ὠτότμητος (ōtótmētos)
• ὠτώεις (ōtṓeis)
• ὠτᾰκουστέω (ōtakoustéō)
• ὠτᾰκουστής (ōtakoustḗs)
• ὠτᾰλγέω (ōtalgéō)
• ὠτᾰλγῐ́ᾱ (ōtalgíā)
• ὠτᾰρᾶς (ōtarâs)
• ὠτᾰ́ρῐον (ōtárion)
• ὠτῐκός (ōtikós)
• ὠτῐ́ον (ōtíon)
• ὠτῐοφόρος (ōtiophóros)
• ὠτῐ́ς (ōtís)

 

Descendants

Descendants of οὖς in other languages

• → English: oto-, ot-
• Koine Greek: ὠτίον (ōtíon), ὠτία (ōtía)
  • Byzantine Greek: ἀφτίον (aphtíon), ἀφτία (aphtía)
    • Greek: αφτί (aftí), αυτί (aftí)

References

• “οὖς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Further reading

• “οὖς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “οὖς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• οὖς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• οὖς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• G3775 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • ear idem, page 258.