Ancient Greek

Noun

οὖρον • ‎(oûron) n ‎(genitive οὔρου); second declension

1. urine
   • Herodotus, Histories 2.111

Inflection

Derived terms

• οὐρέω ‎(ouréō)
  • οὐρήθρα ‎(ourḗthra)

Descendants

• French: urée
  • New Latin: urea
  • Portuguese: ureia
• Greek: ούρο ‎(oúro), ούρα ‎(oúra)

Etymology 2

Perhaps related to ὄρνυμι ‎(órnumi, “excite”)

Noun

οὖρον • ‎(oûron) n ‎(genitive οὔρου); second declension

1. range, space
   • Homer, Iliad 23.431

Inflection

Etymology 3

Noun

οὖρον • ‎(oûron)

1. accusative singular of οὖρος ‎(oûros)

References

• οὖρον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• οὖρον in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• οὖρον in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «οὖρον» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «οὖρον» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• LSJ 8th edition

1. ↑ Watkins, Calvert (2000). The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots. 2nd edition, page 100, s.v. wē-r-. ISBN 0-618-08250-6.