οὐρεύς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

See ὀρεύς (oreús).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /uː.rěu̯s/ → /uˈreɸs/ → /uˈrefs/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /uː.rěu̯s/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /uˈrews/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /uˈreɸs/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /uˈrefs/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /uˈrefs/

Noun

οὐρεύς • (oureús) m or f (genitive οὐρεῦ); third declension

1. Epic and Ionic form of ὀρεύς (oreús): mule
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.50–52:

     οὐρῆας μὲν πρῶτον ἐπῴχετο καὶ κύνας ἀργούς
     αὐτὰρ ἔπειτ' αὐτοῖσι βέλος ἐχεπευκὲς ἐφιεὶς / βάλλ'·

     ourêas mèn prôton epṓikheto kaì kúnas argoús
     autàr épeit' autoîsi bélos ekhepeukès ephieìs / báll';

     • 1924 translation by A.T. Murray

       The mules he assailed first and the swift dogs,
       but then on the men themselves he let fly his stinging shafts, / and struck;

Inflection

Third declension of οὐρεύς; οὐρῆος (Epic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	οὐρεύς oureús	οὐρῆε ourêe	οὐρῆες ourêes
Genitive	οὐρῆος / οὐρέος ourêos / ouréos	οὐρήοιῐν ourḗoiin	οὐρήων ourḗōn
Dative	οὐρῆῐ̈ / οὐρέῐ̈ ourêï / ouréï	οὐρήοιῐν ourḗoiin	οὐρήεσσῐ / οὐρήεσσῐν / οὐρεῦσῐ / οὐρεῦσῐν ourḗessi(n) / oureûsi(n)
Accusative	οὐρῆᾰ / οὐρέᾰ ourêa / ouréa	οὐρῆε ourêe	οὐρῆᾰς ourêas
Vocative	οὐρεῦ oureû	οὐρῆε ourêe	οὐρῆες ourêes
Notes:	Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms may be based on conjecture. Use with caution.

Further reading

• “οὐρεύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “οὐρεύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• οὐρεύς 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
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, § 319-320