Ὄθρυς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Mahlow, it stands for ὀφρῦς (ophrûs, “brow; ridge of a hill”), with variation φ/θ. According to Beekes, the word is undoubtedly Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ó.tʰrys/ → /ˈo.θrys/ → /ˈo.θris/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ó.tʰrys/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈo.tʰrys/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.θrys/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.θrys/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈo.θris/

Proper noun

Ὄθρυς • (Óthrus) m (genitive Ὄθρῠος); third declension

1. mount Othrys, Thessaly, Greece

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ Ὄθρῠς; τοῦ Ὄθρῠος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Ὄθρῠς ho Óthrus
Genitive	τοῦ Ὄθρῠος toû Óthruos
Dative	τῷ Ὄθρῠῐ̈ / Ὄθρυι tôi Óthruï / Óthrui
Accusative	τὸν Ὄθρῠν tòn Óthrun
Vocative	Ὄθρῠ Óthru
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: Όθρυς (Óthrys)
• Latin: Othrys

References

• “Ὄθρυς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Ὄθρυς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,019
• 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