Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Noun
ὄρος • (óros) n (genitive ὄρεος or ὄρους); third declension
- a mountain, hill
- mountain chain
- district, sector, precinct, parish
Inflection
Third declension of
τὸ ὄρος;
τοῦ ὄρεος (Uncontracted)
| Case / # |
Singular |
Dual |
Plural |
| Nominative |
τὸ ὄρος
|
τὼ ὄρεε
|
τᾰ̀ ὄρεᾰ
|
| Genitive |
τοῦ ὄρεος
|
τοῖν ὀρέοιν
|
τῶν ὀρέων
|
| Dative |
τῷ ὄρεῐ̈
|
τοῖν ὀρέοιν
|
τοῖς ὄρεσῐ(ν) |
| Accusative |
τὸ ὄρος
|
τὼ ὄρεε
|
τᾰ̀ ὄρεᾰ
|
| Vocative |
ὄρος
|
ὄρεε
|
ὄρεᾰ
|
| Notes: |
This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.
|
Third declension of
τὸ ὄρος;
τοῦ ὄρους (Contracted)
| Case / # |
Singular |
Dual |
Plural |
| Nominative |
τὸ ὄρος
|
τὼ ὄρει
|
τᾰ̀ ὄρη
|
| Genitive |
τοῦ ὄρους
|
τοῖν ὀροῖν
|
τῶν ὀρῶν
|
| Dative |
τῷ ὄρει
|
τοῖν ὀροῖν
|
τοῖς ὄρεσῐ(ν) |
| Accusative |
τὸ ὄρος
|
τὼ ὄρει
|
τᾰ̀ ὄρη
|
| Vocative |
ὄρος
|
ὄρει
|
ὄρη
|
| Notes: |
This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.
|
Descendants
- English: oro-
- Greek: όρος m (óros, “mountain”)
References
- ὄρος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ὄρος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ὄρος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- «ὄρος» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- ὄρος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- “G3735”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
- «ὄρος» in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th-12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume I, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 326
- BDAG
- 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