οὖς
Ancient Greek
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ûːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /us/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /us/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /us/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /us/
Noun
[edit]οὖς • (oûs) n (genitive ὠτός); third declension
- (anatomy, zootomy) ear
- hearing
- (from resemblance to an ear):
- handle of a pitcher or cup
- (architecture) Synonym of πᾰρωτῐ́ς (parōtís).
- Ellipsis of οὖς Ἀ̆φροδῑ́της (oûs Aphrodī́tēs).: A kind of shellfish.
- (anatomy) auricle of the heart
- The name of part of a bandage.
- (figuratively) spy
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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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: |
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Case / # | Singular | Plural | |||||||||||
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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: |
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Derived terms
[edit]- 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
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “οὖς”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1130-1
Further reading
[edit]- “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.
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