ὀρός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *horós, from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to flow, run”); see also Sanskrit सर (sara, “flowing”), सरित् (sarit, “river, brook”) and Latin serum (“whey”).

Pronunciation
 

Noun

ὀρός • (orós) m (genitive ὀροῦ); second declension

  1. whey, the watery part of milk
  2. serum of blood

Inflection
Second declension of ὁ ὀρός; τοῦ ὀροῦ (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁ ὀρός
ho orós		 τὼ ὀρώ
tṑ orṓ		 οἱ ὀροί
hoi oroí
Genitive τοῦ ὀροῦ
toû oroû		 τοῖν ὀροῖν
toîn oroîn		 τῶν ὀρῶν
tôn orôn
Dative τῷ ὀρῷ
tôi orôi		 τοῖν ὀροῖν
toîn oroîn		 τοῖς ὀροῖς
toîs oroîs
Accusative τὸν ὀρόν
tòn orón		 τὼ ὀρώ
tṑ orṓ		 τοὺς ὀρούς
toùs oroús
Vocative ὀρέ
oré		 ὀρώ
orṓ		 ὀροί
oroí
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms
  • ἐξορίζω (exorízō)
  • ὀροποτέω (oropotéō)
  • ὀρώδης (orṓdēs)

Descendants
  • Greek: ορός (orós)
  • ⇒ Italian: orotico

Further reading
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