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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *h₃r̥dʰ-ro-, from *h₃erdʰ- (“to rise”). Cognate with ὀρθός (orthós), Latin ortus (“star's rise”), oriens (“sunrise”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ór.tʰros/ → /ˈor.θros/ → /ˈor.θros/
Noun
ὄρθρος • (órthros) m (genitive ὄρθρου); second declension
- The time immediately before or around sunrise: dawn, early morning twilight
- ὄρθρος βαθύς ― órthros bathús ― dim morning twilight
400 BCE – 387 BCE,
Plato,
Crito 43a:
- ΣΩ. τί τηνικάδε ἀφῖξαι, ὦ Κρίτων; ἢ οὐ πρῲ ἔτι ἐστίν;
ΚΡ. πάνυ μὲν οὖν.
ΣΩ. πηνίκα μάλιστα;
ΚΡ. ὄρθρος βαθύς.- SŌ. tí tēnikáde aphîxai, ô Krítōn? ḕ ou prṑi éti estín?
KR. pánu mèn oûn.
SŌ. pēníka málista?
KR. órthros bathús. - Socrates: Why have you come at this time, Crito? Or isn't it still early?
Crito: Yes, very much so.
Socrates: About what time?
Crito: Dim morning twilight.
Inflection
References
Further reading
- “ὄρθρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὄρθρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- G3722 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.
- “ὄρθρος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011