orcus

See also: Orcus

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈor.kus/, [ˈɔrkʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈor.kus/, [ˈɔrkus]

Noun

orcus m (genitive orcī); second declension

1. underworld
2. afterlife

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	orcus	orcī
Genitive	orcī	orcōrum
Dative	orcō	orcīs
Accusative	orcum	orcōs
Ablative	orcō	orcīs
Vocative	orce	orcī

Descendants

• Catalan: orc
• Dutch: ork
• French: ogre, orque (borrowing)
  • English: ogre
• German: Ork
• Italian: orco
• Old English: orc
  • English: orc (re-borrowing)
• Spanish: huerco, orco (borrowing)

References

• orcus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the world below: inferi (Orcus and Tartarus only poetical)
    
• “orcus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “orcus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray