orcus

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Latin

Etymology

See Orcus.

Pronunciation

Noun

orcus m (genitive orcī); second declension

  1. underworld
  2. afterlife

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative orcus orcī
Genitive orcī orcōrum
Dative orcō orcīs
Accusative orcum orcōs
Ablative orcō orcīs
Vocative orce orcī

Descendants

See also descendants at Orcus.

  • → Middle French: orque (“hell”)
  • → Spanish: orco (“hell”)

References

  • orcus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • the world below: inferi (Orcus and Tartarus only poetical)
  • “orcus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “orcus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
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