ὠρυγή
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ὠρύομαι (ōrúomai) + -ή (-ḗ).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ɔː.ryː.ɡɛ̌ː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /o.ryˈɡe̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /o.ryˈʝi/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /o.ryˈʝi/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /o.riˈʝi/
Noun
ὠρῡγή • (ōrūgḗ) f (genitive ὠρῡγῆς); first declension
- a howling of wolves, dogs
- Julius Pollux, Onomasticon 5.87
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ ὠρῡγή hē ōrūgḗ |
τὼ ὠρῡγᾱ́ tṑ ōrūgā́ |
αἱ ὠρῡγαί hai ōrūgaí | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς ὠρῡγῆς tês ōrūgês |
τοῖν ὠρῡγαῖν toîn ōrūgaîn |
τῶν ὠρῡγῶν tôn ōrūgôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ ὠρῡγῇ tēî ōrūgēî |
τοῖν ὠρῡγαῖν toîn ōrūgaîn |
ταῖς ὠρῡγαῖς taîs ōrūgaîs | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν ὠρῡγήν tḕn ōrūgḗn |
τὼ ὠρῡγᾱ́ tṑ ōrūgā́ |
τᾱ̀ς ὠρῡγᾱ́ς tā̀s ōrūgā́s | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ὠρῡγή ōrūgḗ |
ὠρῡγᾱ́ ōrūgā́ |
ὠρῡγαί ōrūgaí | ||||||||||
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Related terms
- ὠρυγμός (ōrugmós, “roar”)
- ὤρυγμα (ṓrugma, “roar of the waves”)
Further reading
- “ὠρυγή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὠρυγή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ὠρυγή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ὠρυγή, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- 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