οὐρά
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ers- (“backside, buttocks”). Related to ὄρρος (órrhos).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /oː.rǎː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /uˈra/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /uˈra/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /uˈra/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /uˈra/
- Hyphenation: οὐ‧ρά
Noun
οὐρᾱ́ • (ourā́) f (genitive οὐρᾶς); first declension
Declension
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ οὐρᾱ́ hē ourā́ |
τὼ οὐρᾱ́ tṑ ourā́ |
αἱ οὐραί hai ouraí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς οὐρᾶς tês ourâs |
τοῖν οὐραῖν toîn ouraîn |
τῶν οὐρῶν tôn ourôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ οὐρᾷ têi ourâi |
τοῖν οὐραῖν toîn ouraîn |
ταῖς οὐραῖς taîs ouraîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν οὐρᾱ́ν tḕn ourā́n |
τὼ οὐρᾱ́ tṑ ourā́ |
τᾱ̀ς οὐρᾱ́ς tā̀s ourā́s | ||||||||||
Vocative | οὐρᾱ́ ourā́ |
οὐρᾱ́ ourā́ |
οὐραί ouraí | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- μᾰκρόουρος (makróouros)
- οὐροβόρος (ourobóros)
Descendants
- Greek: ουρά (ourá)
References
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, ISBN 9789004174207, page 1127
- οὐρά in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- οὐρά in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- οὐρά in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- G3769 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
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