ὀρός

See also: όρος, ορός, ὄρος, and ὅρος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *horós (an -ός (-ós) nominal), from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to flow, run”); see also Sanskrit सर (sara, “flowing”), सरित् (sarit, “river, brook”) and Latin serum (“whey”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /o.rós/ → /oˈros/ → /oˈros/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /o.rós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /oˈros/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /oˈros/
• (10^th CE Medieval) IPA^(key): /oˈros/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /oˈros/

Noun

ὀρός • (orós) m (genitive ὀροῦ); second declension

1. whey, the watery part of milk
2. serum of blood

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ὀρός; τοῦ ὀροῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ὀρός ho orós	τὼ ὀρώ tṑ orṓ	οἱ ὀροί hoi oroí
Genitive	τοῦ ὀροῦ toû oroû	τοῖν ὀροῖν toîn oroîn	τῶν ὀρῶν tôn orôn
Dative	τῷ ὀρῷ tōî orōî	τοῖν ὀροῖν toîn oroîn	τοῖς ὀροῖς toîs oroîs
Accusative	τὸν ὀρόν tòn orón	τὼ ὀρώ tṑ orṓ	τοὺς ὀρούς toùs oroús
Vocative	ὀρέ oré	ὀρώ orṓ	ὀροί oroí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἐξορίζω (exorízō)
• ὀροποτέω (oropotéō)
• ὀρώδης (orṓdēs)

Descendants

• Greek: ορός (orós)
• ⇒ Italian: orotico

Further reading

• “ὀρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὀρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ὀρός” 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