Orcus

From Latin Orcus. Doublet of ogre and orc.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔːrkəs/

Orcus

2. (Roman mythology) The Etruscan and Roman god of the underworld.

   Coordinate terms: Hades, Pluto

   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene i:

     Then ſhall our footmen lie within the trench,
     And with their Cannons mouth’d like Orcus gulfe
     Batter the wales, and we will enter in:
     And thus the Grecians ſhalbe conquered.

4. (astronomy) A plutino and planetoid, possibly a dwarf planet; sometimes referred to as the “anti-Pluto”.

   Hypernym: plutino

• (celestial body): 🝿

• (most likely dwarf planets of the Solar System) Ceres, Orcus, Pluto, Salacia, Haumea, Quaoar, Makemake, Gonggong, Eris, Sedna

• Orcus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• 90482 Orcus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• cours, scour, sucro-

• Orchus (Medieval Latin)

Unknown. Some refer it to Proto-Indo-European *h₂erk- (“to hold, shut in”), others to Ancient Greek ὅρκος (hórkos, “oath”), whence Proto-Italic *orkos.^[1] For the former, compare the semantics of English hell, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel-.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɔr.kʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɔr.kus]

Orcus m (genitive Orcī); second declension

1. the underworld
2. (Roman mythology) Orcus (god of the underworld)
3. (New Latin, astronomy) Orcus (dwarf planet)
4. death

Second-declension noun.

• Orcīnus
• orcīniānus

• “Orcus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Orcus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Orcus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.