Ὠρίων

See also: Ωρίων

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• Ὠᾰρῑ́ων (Ōarī́ōn)

Etymology

Possibly from Akkadian 𒌋𒊒𒀭𒈾 (Uru-anna, “heaven's light”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ɔː.rǐː.ɔːn/ → /oˈri.on/ → /oˈri.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ɔː.rǐː.ɔːn/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /oˈri.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /oˈri.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /oˈri.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /oˈri.on/

Proper noun

Ὠρῑ́ων • (Ōrī́ōn) m (genitive Ὠρῑ́ωνος); third declension

1. Orion
2. (astronomy) the constellation Orion
3. a fabulous Indian bird

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ Ὠρῑ́ων; τοῦ Ὠρῑ́ωνος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Ὠρῑ́ων ho Ōrī́ōn
Genitive	τοῦ Ὠρῑ́ωνος toû Ōrī́ōnos
Dative	τῷ Ὠρῑ́ωνῐ tôi Ōrī́ōni
Accusative	τὸν Ὠρῑ́ωνᾰ tòn Ōrī́ōna
Vocative	Ὠρῑ́ων Ōrī́ōn
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Ὠᾰρῑώνειος (Ōarīṓneios)

Descendants

• Greek: Ωρίων (Oríon)
• Latin: Ōrīōn
  • → Middle English: Orioun (learned)
    • English: Orion
  • → Portuguese: Orion (learned)

References

• “Ὠρίων”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Ὠρίων”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Ὠρίων”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,019
• Ὠρίων in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette