οὖς

See also: ους, ουσ., -οῦς, and οὕς

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ὦς (ôs) — Doric, Koine

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓws (“ear”). Cognate with Old English ēare (English ear), Latin auris, Old Armenian ունկն (unkn), Old Church Slavonic оухо (uxo), and Old Irish áu.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ûːs/ → /us/ → /us/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ûːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /us/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /us/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /us/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /us/

Noun

οὖς • (oûs) n (genitive ὠτός); third declension

1. (anatomy, zootomy) ear
2. hearing
3. (from resemblance to an ear):
   1. handle of a pitcher or cup
   2. (architecture) Synonym of πᾰρωτῐ́ς (parōtís).
   3. Ellipsis of οὖς Ἀ̆φροδῑ́της (oûs Aphrodī́tēs).: A kind of shellfish.
   4. (anatomy) auricle of the heart
   5. The name of part of a bandage.
   6. (figuratively) spy

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ οὖς; τοῦ ὠτός (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ οὖς tò oûs	τὼ ὦτε tṑ ôte	τᾰ̀ ὦτᾰ tà ôta
Genitive	τοῦ ὠτός toû ōtós	τοῖν ὤτοιν toîn ṓtoin	τῶν ὤτων tôn ṓtōn
Dative	τῷ ὠτῐ́ tôi ōtí	τοῖν ὤτοιν toîn ṓtoin	τοῖς ὠσῐ́ / ὠσῐ́ν toîs ōsí(n)
Accusative	τὸ οὖς tò oûs	τὼ ὦτε tṑ ôte	τᾰ̀ ὦτᾰ tà ôta
Vocative	οὖς oûs	ὦτε ôte	ὦτᾰ ôta
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ts.

Third declension of οὖς; οὔᾰτος (Epic)

Case / #	Singular	Plural
Nominative	οὖς oûs	οὔᾰτᾰ oúata
Genitive	οὔᾰτος oúatos	οὐάτων ouátōn
Dative	οὔᾰτῐ oúati	οὔᾰσῐ / οὔᾰσῐν / ὠσί / ὠσίν oúasi(n) / ōsí(n)
Accusative	οὖς oûs	οὔᾰτᾰ oúata
Vocative	οὖς oûs	οὔᾰτᾰ oúata
Notes:	Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms may be based on conjecture. Use with caution. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ts.

Derived terms

• ὠτᾰκουστέω (ōtakoustéō)
• ὠτᾰκουστής (ōtakoustḗs)
• ὠτᾰλγέω (ōtalgéō)
• ὠτᾰλγῐ́ᾱ (ōtalgíā)
• ὠτᾰρᾶς (ōtarâs)
• ὠτᾰ́ρῐον (ōtárion)
• ὠτεγχῠ́της (ōtenkhútēs)
• ὠτῐκός (ōtikós)
• ὠτῐ́ον (ōtíon)
• ὠτῐοφόρος (ōtiophóros)
• ὠτῐ́ς (ōtís)
• ὠτογλῠφῐ́ς (ōtogluphís)
• ὠτοειδής (ōtoeidḗs)
• ὠτοθλᾰδῐ́ᾱς (ōtothladíās)
• ὠτοκᾰ́τᾰξις (ōtokátaxis)
• ὠτοκλᾰδῐ́ᾱς (ōtokladíās)
• ὠτοκοπέω (ōtokopéō)
• ὠτοκωφέω (ōtokōphéō)
• ὠτολᾰβῐ́ς (ōtolabís)
• ὠτόλῐκνος (ōtóliknos)
• ὠτοπᾰ́ροχος (ōtopárokhos)
• ὠτοπέτης (ōtopétēs)
• ὠτόρρῠτος (ōtórrhutos)
• ὦτος (ôtos)
• ὠτότμητος (ōtótmētos)
• ὠτώεις (ōtṓeis)

 

Descendants

• Koine Greek: ὠτίον (ōtíon), ὠτία (ōtía)
  • Byzantine Greek: ἀφτίον (aphtíon), ἀφτία (aphtía)
    • Greek: αφτί (aftí), αυτί (aftí)
    • Mariupol Greek: фты (fty)
• → English: oto-, ot-

Further reading

• “οὖς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “οὖς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “οὖς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• οὖς 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
• οὖς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• G3775 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • ear idem, page 258.