Ὄσιρις

See also: ὄσιρις

Ancient Greek

Ὄσιρις

Alternative forms

  • Ὀσειρῐς (Oseirĭs)

Etymology

Borrowed from Egyptian

Pronunciation

 

Proper noun

Ὄσῑρῐς • (Ósīrĭsm (genitive Ὀσῑ́ρῐος or Ὀσῑ́ρεως or Ὀσῑ́ρῐδος); third declension

  1. (Egyptian mythology) Osiris (the Egyptian god of the dead and of the underworld)

Declension

Derived terms

  • Ὀσῑρεῖον (Osīreîon)
  • Ὀσῑρῐᾰ́ζω (Osīrĭắzō)
  • Ὀσῑρῐᾰκός (Osīrĭăkós)
  • Ὀσῑρῐᾱ́ς (Osīrĭā́s)
  • Ὀσῑρῐ́ειον (Osīrĭ́eion)

Descendants

  • Greek: Όσιρις (Ósiris)
  • Latin: Osīris

Further reading

  • Ὄσιρις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,019