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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Possibly from Akkadian 𒌋𒊒𒀭𒈾 (Uru-anna, “heaven's light”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɔː.rǐː.ɔːn/ → /oˈri.on/ → /oˈri.on/
Proper noun
Ὠρῑ́ων • (Ōrī́ōn) m (genitive Ὠρῑ́ωνος); third declension
- Orion
- (astronomy) the constellation Orion
- a fabulous Indian bird
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References
- “Ὠρίων”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Ὠρίων”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “Ὠρίων”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,019
- Ὠρίων in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette