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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *horós, from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to flow, run”); see also Sanskrit सर (sara, “flowing”), सरित् (sarit, “river, brook”) and Latin serum (“whey”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /o.rós/ → /oˈros/ → /oˈros/
Noun
ὀρός • (orós) m (genitive ὀροῦ); second declension
- whey, the watery part of milk
- serum of blood
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Further reading
- “ὀρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὀρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ὀρός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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