οὐρός

See also: οὖρος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Formerly connected to ὅρος (hóros, “frontier”) and ὀρύσσω (orússō, “to dig”). Recently, however, García Ramón has analyzed this word as an agent noun *uoru-ó- built on the same root as ἐρύω (erúō, “to drag”), thus from Proto-Indo-European *rewH- (“to tear, dig, burrow, gather”).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /uː.rós/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /uˈros/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /uˈros/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /uˈros/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /uˈros/

Noun

οὐρός • (ourós) m (genitive οὐροῦ); second declension

trench or channel for hauling up and launching ships

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ οὐρός; τοῦ οὐροῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ οὐρός ho ourós	τὼ οὐρώ tṑ ourṓ	οἱ οὐροί hoi ouroí
Genitive	τοῦ οὐροῦ toû ouroû	τοῖν οὐροῖν toîn ouroîn	τῶν οὐρῶν tôn ourôn
Dative	τῷ οὐρῷ tōî ourōî	τοῖν οὐροῖν toîn ouroîn	τοῖς οὐροῖς toîs ouroîs
Accusative	τὸν οὐρόν tòn ourón	τὼ οὐρώ tṑ ourṓ	τοὺς οὐρούς toùs ouroús
Vocative	οὐρέ ouré	οὐρώ ourṓ	οὐροί ouroí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

References

“οὐρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“οὐρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“οὐρός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
οὐρός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
οὐρός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
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