Ancient Greek

Proper noun

Ᾰ̓ρκτοῦρος • ‎(Arktoûros) m ‎(genitive Ᾰ̓ρκτούρου); second declension

1. Arcturus, a bright star in the Boötes constellation.
   • 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Works and Days 566
   • 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Works and Days 610
   • Anaxag. 20
2. The time of Arcturus' rising (mid September).
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, περὶ ἀέρων ὑδάτων τόπων 10
   • 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 1137
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 844.e
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.78

Inflection

Descendants

• Greek: Αρκτούρος ‎(Arktoúros)
• Latin: Arcturus

References

• Ἀρκτοῦρος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Ἀρκτοῦρος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «Ἀρκτοῦρος» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,002