οὐραῖος
Ancient Greek
editEtymology 1
editFrom οὐρά (ourá, “tail”) + -αῖος (-aîos, adjective suffix).
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /uː.râi̯.os/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /uˈrɛ.os/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /uˈrɛ.os/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /uˈre.os/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /uˈre.os/
Adjective
editοὐραῖος • (ouraîos) m (feminine οὐραίᾱ, neuter οὐραῖον); first/second declension
- of the tail
Declension
editNumber | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
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Case/Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |||||
Nominative | οὐραῖος ouraîos |
οὐραίᾱ ouraíā |
οὐραῖον ouraîon |
οὐραίω ouraíō |
οὐραίᾱ ouraíā |
οὐραίω ouraíō |
οὐραῖοι ouraîoi |
οὐραῖαι ouraîai |
οὐραῖᾰ ouraîa | |||||
Genitive | οὐραίου ouraíou |
οὐραίᾱς ouraíās |
οὐραίου ouraíou |
οὐραίοιν ouraíoin |
οὐραίαιν ouraíain |
οὐραίοιν ouraíoin |
οὐραίων ouraíōn |
οὐραίων ouraíōn |
οὐραίων ouraíōn | |||||
Dative | οὐραίῳ ouraíōi |
οὐραίᾳ ouraíāi |
οὐραίῳ ouraíōi |
οὐραίοιν ouraíoin |
οὐραίαιν ouraíain |
οὐραίοιν ouraíoin |
οὐραίοις ouraíois |
οὐραίαις ouraíais |
οὐραίοις ouraíois | |||||
Accusative | οὐραῖον ouraîon |
οὐραίᾱν ouraíān |
οὐραῖον ouraîon |
οὐραίω ouraíō |
οὐραίᾱ ouraíā |
οὐραίω ouraíō |
οὐραίους ouraíous |
οὐραίᾱς ouraíās |
οὐραῖᾰ ouraîa | |||||
Vocative | οὐραῖε ouraîe |
οὐραίᾱ ouraíā |
οὐραῖον ouraîon |
οὐραίω ouraíō |
οὐραίᾱ ouraíā |
οὐραίω ouraíō |
οὐραῖοι ouraîoi |
οὐραῖαι ouraîai |
οὐραῖᾰ ouraîa | |||||
Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
οὐραίως ouraíōs |
οὐραιότερος ouraióteros |
οὐραιότᾰτος ouraiótatos | ||||||||||||
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Etymology 2
editTraditionally assumed to be from Egyptian jꜥrt (“cobra in threat posture”),
, from jꜥr (“to rise, climb”); however, on phonetic grounds, Gundacker, following Fecht, argues for an origin in Egyptian wrrt (“White Crown, uraeus”, literally “the great one”) instead.
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Alternative forms
edit- *οὐβαῖος (*oubaîos) (The accusative form οὐβαῖον appears as a hapax legomenon in some copies of Horapollo's Hieroglyphica.[1] Appears to be typographical error, but cf. Coptic ⲟⲃⲓⲟⲛ (obion).)
Noun
editοὐραῖος • (ouraîos) m (genitive οὐραίου); second declension
Declension
editCase / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ οὐραῖος ho ouraîos |
τὼ οὐραίω tṑ ouraíō |
οἱ οὐραῖοι hoi ouraîoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ οὐραίου toû ouraíou |
τοῖν οὐραίοιν toîn ouraíoin |
τῶν οὐραίων tôn ouraíōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ οὐραίῳ tôi ouraíōi |
τοῖν οὐραίοιν toîn ouraíoin |
τοῖς οὐραίοις toîs ouraíois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν οὐραῖον tòn ouraîon |
τὼ οὐραίω tṑ ouraíō |
τοὺς οὐραίους toùs ouraíous | ||||||||||
Vocative | οὐραῖε ouraîe |
οὐραίω ouraíō |
οὐραῖοι ouraîoi | ||||||||||
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Descendants
edit- → Latin: ūraeus
Further reading
edit- “οὐραῖος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “οὐραῖος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- οὐραῖος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
References
editCategories:
- Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -αῖος
- Ancient Greek 3-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek adjectives
- Ancient Greek properispomenon terms
- Ancient Greek terms derived from Egyptian
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns
- Ancient Greek second-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the second declension
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