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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *wórwos (whence Mycenaean Greek 𐀺𐀺 (wo-wo)), perhaps from a Proto-Indo-European *werw-, with cognates including Latin urvō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hó.ros/ → /ˈo.ros/ → /ˈo.ros/
Noun
ὅρος • (hóros) m (genitive ὅρου); second declension
- (also geometry) boundary, limit, frontier, landmark
350 BCE – 250 BCE,
Euclid,
Elements 1:
- ὅρος ἐστίν, ὅ τινός ἐστι πέρας.
- hóros estín, hó tinós esti péras.
- 2008 translation by Richard Fitzpatrick
- A boundary is that which is the extremity of something.
- marking stones, stones used for inscribing legal contracts
- the broad wooden piece serving as the upper part of an oil/wine press
- rule, standard
- term, definition
- goal, end, aim
Inflection
Derived terms
References
- “ὅρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὅρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ὅρος 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
- “ὅρος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- aim idem, page 21.
- border idem, page 89.
- bound idem, page 90.
- boundary idem, page 91.
- canon idem, page 111.
- compass idem, page 150.
- definition idem, page 205.
- degree idem, page 206.
- demarcation idem, page 209.
- fringe idem, page 346.
- frontier idem, page 347.
- goal idem, page 365.
- guiding idem, page 378.
- horizon idem, page 406.
- ideal idem, page 413.
- landmark idem, page 475.
- limit idem, page 492.
- margin idem, page 514.
- measure idem, page 520.
- object idem, page 565.
- principle idem, page 641.
- restriction idem, page 706.
- rule idem, page 725.
- scope idem, page 740.
- sphere idem, page 801.
- standard idem, page 810.
- term idem, page 862.
- territory idem, page 863.
- test idem, page 863.
- tether idem, page 863.