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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ὀρθός (orthós) + -ιος (-ios).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ór.tʰi.os/ → /ˈor.θi.os/ → /ˈor.θi.os/
Adjective
ὄρθῐος • (órthios) m (feminine ὀρθί̆ᾱ, neuter ὄρθῐον); first/second declension
- straight, steep, uphill; upright, standing
- (of voice, sound) high-pitched, shrill
- (military) formed in column (opp. in line or extended front)
- (geometry) right angle
Inflection
Derived terms
References
- “ὄρθιος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὄρθιος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ὄρθιος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ὄρθιος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- ὄρθιος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “ὄρθιος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G3717 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- bristling idem, page 100.
- column idem, page 144.
- erect idem, page 281.
- highest idem, page 400.
- hill idem, page 400.
- loud idem, page 501.
- penetrating idem, page 603.
- piercing idem, page 612.
- rising idem, page 717.
- sharp idem, page 762.
- shrill idem, page 771.
- sloping idem, page 785.
- standing idem, page 811.
- steep idem, page 815.
- uphill idem, page 938.
- upright idem, page 938.