οὖρος

Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

According to Beekes, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃er- (“to move, stir, spring”), like ὄρνυμι (órnumi, “to awaken”).

Noun

οὖρος • (oûros) m (genitive οὔρου); second declension

1. fair wind
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 11.11:

     ἴκμενον οὖρον ἵει πλησίστιον, ἐσθλὸν ἑταῖρον, Κίρκη εὐπλόκαμος

     íkmenon oûron híei plēsístion, esthlòn hetaîron, Kírkē euplókamos

     a fair wind that filled the sail, a goodly comrade, was sent by fair-tressed Circe

Inflection

Related terms

• οὐρῐ́ζω (ourízō)
• οὔρῐος (oúrios)

References

• “οὖρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Etymology 2

• From Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to note, sense”).
• Or from Proto-Indo-European *sorwos (“guardian”). Cognate with Latin servus.

Noun

οὖρος • (oûros) m (genitive οὔρου); second declension

1. guardian, watcher
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 15.89:

     οὐ γὰρ ὄπισθεν οὖρον ἰὼν κατέλειπον ἐπὶ κτεάτεσσιν ἐμοῖσιν

     ou gàr ópisthen oûron iṑn katéleipon epì kteátessin emoîsin

     I left behind no guardian to watch over my possessions

Inflection

Derived terms

• Ᾰ̓ρκτοῦρος (Arktoûros)
• ἐπίουρος (epíouros)/ ἔφορος (éphoros)

Related terms

• οὐρεῖον (oureîon)
• οὐρεύω (oureúō)
• οὐρέω (ouréō)
• οὔρῐον (oúrion)

References

• “οὖρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Latin ūrus.

Noun

οὖρος • (oûros) m (genitive οὔρου); second declension

1. aurochs, Bos primigenius

Inflection

References

• “οὖρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Etymology 4

Noun

οὖρος • (oûros) m (genitive οὔρου); second declension

1. Ionic form of ὅρος (hóros)

References

• “οὖρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Etymology 5

Noun

οὖρος • (oûros) n (genitive οὔρεος); third declension

1. Epic and Lyric form of ὄρος (óros)

Declension

Further reading

• “οὖρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “οὖρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “οὖρος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• οὖρος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• οὖρος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “οὖρος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• οὖρος in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • breeze idem, page 97.
  • fair idem, page 302.
  • favourable idem, page 311.
  • prospering idem, page 653.
  • wafting idem, page 958.
  • wind idem, page 980.
• 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