Ancient Greek

Noun

ὄρθρος • ‎(órthros) f ‎(genitive ὄρθρου); first declension

1. The time immediately before or around sunrise, early morning, dawn
2. (ὄρθρος βαθύς) dim morning twilight
   • 400 BCE – 387 BCE, Plato, Crito 43.a

     Σωκράτης   τί τηνικάδε ἀφῖξαι, ὦ Κρίτων; ἢ οὐ πρῲ ἔτι ἐστίν;
     Κρίτων   πάνυ μὲν οὖν.
     Σωκράτης   πηνίκα μάλιστα;
     Κρίτων   ὄρθρος βαθύς.

     Socrates: Why have you come at this time, Crito? Or isn't it still early?
     Crito: Yes, very much so.
     Socrates: About what time?
     Crito: Just before dawn.

Inflection

References

• ὄρθρος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὄρθρος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “G3722”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • dawn idem, page 197.
  • dusk idem, page 256.
  • morning idem, page 541.
  • twilight idem, page 903.