Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• οὖας ‎(oûas) (Homeric)
• ὦς ‎(ôs) (Doric, Hellenistic)

Noun

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

1. ear
2. hearing
3. (figuratively) spy
4. handle of a pitcher or cup

Inflection

Descendants

• English: ot-
• Greek: αυτί ‎(aftí)

References

• οὖς in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• 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’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • ear idem, page 258.