Ὄθρυς
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Mahlow, it stands for ὀφρῦς (ophrûs, “brow; ridge of a hill”), with variation φ/θ. According to Beekes, the word is undoubtedly Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ó.tʰrys/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈo.tʰrys/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈo.θrys/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈo.θrys/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈo.θris/
Proper noun
Ὄθρυς • (Óthrus) m (genitive Ὄθρῠος); third declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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| Nominative | ὁ Ὄθρῠς ho Óthrus | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ Ὄθρῠος toû Óthruos | ||||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ Ὄθρῠῐ̈ / Ὄθρυι tôi Óthruï / Óthrui | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν Ὄθρῠν tòn Óthrun | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | Ὄθρῠ Óthru | ||||||||||||
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Descendants
References
- “Ὄθρυς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Ὄθρυς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,019
- 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