Ancient Greek

Noun

οὖρος • ‎(oûros) m ‎(genitive οὔρου); second declension

1. fair wind
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 11.11

     ἴκμενον οὖρον ἵει πλησίστιον, ἐσθλὸν ἑταῖρον, Κίρκη εὐπλόκαμος

     a fair wind that filled the sail, a goodly comrade, was sent by fair-tressed Circe

Inflection

Related terms

• οὐρῐ́ζω ‎(ourízō)
• οὔρῐος ‎(oúrios)

References

• οὖρος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Etymology 2

• From Proto-Indo-European *wer- ‎(“to note, sense”).
• Or from Proto-Indo-European *sorwos ‎(“guardian”). Cognate with Latin servus.

Noun

οὖρος • ‎(oûros) m ‎(genitive οὔρου); second declension

1. guardian, watcher
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 15.89

     οὐ γὰρ ὄπισθεν οὖρον ἰὼν κατέλειπον ἐπὶ κτεάτεσσιν ἐμοῖσιν

     I left behind no guardian to watch over my possessions

Inflection

Derived terms

• Ᾰ̓ρκτοῦρος ‎(Arktoûros)

Related terms

• οὐρεῖον ‎(oureîon)
• οὐρεύω ‎(oureúō)
• οὐρέω ‎(ouréō)
• οὔρῐον ‎(oúrion)

References

• οὖρος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Etymology 3

From Latin ūrus.

Noun

οὖρος • ‎(oûros) m ‎(genitive οὔρου); second declension

1. aurochs, Bos primigenius

Inflection

References

• οὖρος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Etymology 4

Alternative forms

• ὅρος ‎(hóros)
• ὄρϝος ‎(órwos), ὄρβος ‎(órbos) Corcyraean
• ὦρος ‎(ôros) Cretan, Argolic
• ὄρος ‎(óros)
• οὖρος ‎(oûros) Ionic
• ὄρρος ‎(órrhos) Megarian

Noun

οὖρος • ‎(oûros) m ‎(genitive οὔρου); second declension

1. Alternative form of ὅρος ‎(hóros)

Inflection

References

• οὖρος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Etymology 5

Alternative forms

• ὄρος ‎(óros)
• οὖρος ‎(oûros) Epic, Lyric
• ὦρος ‎(ôros) Doric

Noun

οὖρος • ‎(oûros) n ‎(genitive οὔρεος); third declension

1. Alternative form of ὄρος ‎(óros)

Inflection

References

• οὖρος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• οὖρος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• οὖρος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «οὖρος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «οὖρος» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• οὖρος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• «οὖρος» in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th-12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • breeze idem, page 97.
  • fair idem, page 302.
  • favourable idem, page 311.
  • prospering idem, page 653.
  • wafting idem, page 958.
  • wind idem, page 980.