Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ὄρϝος ‎(órwos) (Corcyrean)
• ὦρος ‎(ôros) (Arcadocypriot)
• ὄρος ‎(óros)
• οὖρος ‎(oûros) (Ionic)
• ὄρρος ‎(órrhos) (Megarian)

Noun

ὅρος • ‎(hóros) m ‎(genitive ὅρου); second declension

1. boundary, limit, frontier, landmark
2. marking stones, stones used for inscribing legal contracts
3. the broad wooden piece serving as the upper part of an oil/wine press
4. rule, standard
5. term, definition
6. goal, end, aim

Inflection

Derived terms

• ὁρίζω ‎(horízō)

References

• ὅρος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὅρος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «ὅρος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• ὅρος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • aim idem, page 21.
  • border idem, page 89.
  • bound idem, page 90.
  • boundary idem, page 91.
  • canon idem, page 111.
  • compass idem, page 150.
  • definition idem, page 205.
  • degree idem, page 206.
  • demarcation idem, page 209.
  • fringe idem, page 346.
  • frontier idem, page 347.
  • goal idem, page 364.
  • guiding idem, page 378.
  • horizon idem, page 406.
  • ideal idem, page 413.
  • landmark idem, page 475.
  • limit idem, page 492.
  • margin idem, page 514.
  • measure idem, page 520.
  • object idem, page 565.
  • principle idem, page 641.
  • restriction idem, page 706.
  • rule idem, page 725.
  • scope idem, page 740.
  • sphere idem, page 801.
  • standard idem, page 810.
  • term idem, page 862.
  • territory idem, page 863.
  • test idem, page 863.
  • tether idem, page 864.