orcus
See also: Orcus
Latin edit
Etymology edit
See Orcus.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈor.kus/, [ˈɔrkʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈor.kus/, [ˈɔrkus]
Noun edit
orcus m (genitive orcī); second declension
Declension edit
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | orcus | orcī |
Genitive | orcī | orcōrum |
Dative | orcō | orcīs |
Accusative | orcum | orcōs |
Ablative | orcō | orcīs |
Vocative | orce | orcī |
Descendants edit
See also descendants at Orcus.
References edit
- orcus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- the world below: inferi (Orcus and Tartarus only poetical)
- the world below: inferi (Orcus and Tartarus only poetical)
- “orcus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “orcus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray