Orcus

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See also: orcus

English

Orcus's planetary symbol ⟨🝿⟩

Etymology

From Latin Orcus. Doublet of ogre and orc.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Orcus

  2. (Roman mythology) The Etruscan and Roman god of the underworld.
    Coordinate terms: Hades, Pluto
    • c. 1587–1588, , Tamburlaine the Great. The First Part , 2nd edition, part 1, London: Richard Iones, , published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene i:
      Then ſhall our footmen lie within the trench,
      And with their Cannons mouth’d like Orcus gulfe
      Batter the wales, and we will enter in:
      And thus the Grecians ſhalbe conquered.
  4. (astronomy) A plutino and planetoid, possibly a dwarf planet; sometimes referred to as the “anti-Pluto”.
    Hypernym: plutino

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  • (celestial body): 🝿

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Latin

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Etymology

Unknown. Some refer it to Proto-Indo-European *h₂erk- (“to hold, shut in”), others to Ancient Greek ὅρκος (hórkos, “oath”), whence Proto-Italic *orkos. For the former, compare the semantics of English hell, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel-.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Orcus m (genitive Orcī); second declension

  1. the underworld
  2. (Roman mythology) Orcus (god of the underworld)
  3. (New Latin, astronomy) Orcus (dwarf planet)
  4. death

Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative Orcus Orcī
genitive Orcī Orcōrum
dative Orcō Orcīs
accusative Orcum Orcōs
ablative Orcō Orcīs
vocative Orce Orcī

Derived terms

Descendants

See also descendants at orcus.

  • Old French: ogre
    • French: ogre (see there for further descendants)
  • Galician: orco
  • Italian: orco
    • → Bavarian: Orke (Tyrol)
    • → Cimbrian: orko
    • → English: orc (see there for further descendants)
    • → German: Ork, Orke, Org
    • → Luxembourgish: Ork
    • → Mòcheno: ork
  • Piedmontese: òrch
  • Old Spanish: huerco
  • → Middle Dutch: orck
    • Dutch: ork (regional)
  • → Old English: orc
  • → Portuguese: Orco
  • → Sicilian: orcu
  • → Spanish: orco

References

  • “Orcus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “Orcus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Orcus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  1. ^ Wagenvoort, Studies in Roman Literature, Culture and Religion
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