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Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *okris, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂óḱris. Cognate with Ancient Greek ὄκρις (ókris), Old High German ecka, and Sanskrit अश्रि (áśri).
Pronunciation
Noun
ocris m (genitive ocris); third declension
- (Old Latin) a broken, rugged, stony mountain; a crag
- 3rd century BCE, Livius Andronicus, fragments cited by Festus, p. 192.1–4, 5, 6:
ocrem antiqui, ut Ateius Philologus in libro Glosematorum refert, montem confragosum vocabant, ut aput Livium:- ocrem is what the ancients, as Ateius the Grammarian relates in his book of glosses, call a rocky mountain, as in Livius:
[…] sed qui sunt hi, qui ascendunt altum ocrim?- but who are these men who are climbing the high crag?
[…] celsosque ocris / arvaque putria et mare magnum […]- the high crags, / the crumbling earth, and the vast sea
[…] namque Taenari celsos ocris- for the high crags of Taenarus
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
Derived terms
References
- “ocris”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ocris in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN