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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
- IPA(key): /uː.rós/ → /uˈros/ → /uˈros/
Noun
οὐρός • (ourós) m (genitive οὐροῦ); second declension
- trench or channel for hauling up and launching ships
Inflection
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