οὐρεύς
Ancient Greek
editEtymology
editSee ὀρεύς (oreús).
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /uː.rěu̯s/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /uˈrews/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /uˈreɸs/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /uˈrefs/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /uˈrefs/
Noun
editοὐρεύς • (oureús) m or f (genitive οὐρεῦ); third declension
- 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;
- The mules he assailed first and the swift dogs,
- ourêas mèn prôton epṓikheto kaì kúnas argoús
- οὐρῆας μὲν πρῶτον ἐπῴχετο καὶ κύνας ἀργούς
Inflection
editCase / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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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 | ||||||||||
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Further reading
edit- “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
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