ὄαρ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Looking at ὀαρίζω (oarízō, “to converse, chat with”), it is thought that this word originally meant "confidential intercourse", whence "confidential company, wife". A good etymology has not been found. According to Beekes, perhaps from Pre-Greek. Maybe from *h₁ós-r̥ "female", whence also feminine numeral *tisr-, according to Kim.[1]

Pronunciation
 

Noun

ὄᾰρ • (óar) f (genitive ὄᾰρος); third declension

  1. wife, spouse
    Synonyms: γυνή (gunḗ), ἄλοχος (álokhos), σύνευνος (súneunos), ἄκοιτις (ákoitis), σύλλεκτρος (súllektros), εὖνις (eûnis), παράκοιτις (parákoitis), συνευνέτις (suneunétis), συνάορος (sunáoros), συμβία (sumbía), δάμαρ (dámar), ὁμευνέτις (homeunétis), σύζυγος (súzugos), εὐνάτειρα (eunáteira), ευνήτρια (eunḗtria)

Declension
Third declension of ἡ ὄᾰρ; τῆς ὄᾰρος (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἡ ὄᾰρ
hē óar		 τὼ ὄᾰρε
tṑ óare		 αἱ ὄᾰρες
hai óares
Genitive τῆς ὄᾰρος
tês óaros		 τοῖν ὀᾰ́ροιν
toîn oároin		 τῶν ὀᾰ́ρων
tôn oárōn
Dative τῇ ὄᾰρῐ
têi óari		 τοῖν ὀᾰ́ροιν
toîn oároin		 ταῖς ὄᾰρσῐ / ὄᾰρσῐν
taîs óarsi(n)
Accusative τὴν ὄᾰρᾰ
tḕn óara		 τὼ ὄᾰρε
tṑ óare		 τᾱ̀ς ὄᾰρᾰς
tā̀s óaras
Vocative ὄᾰρ
óar		 ὄᾰρε
óare		 ὄᾰρες
óares
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms
  • ὀαρίζω (oarízō)
  • ὀάρισμα (oárisma)
  • ὀαρισμός (oarismós)
  • ὀαριστής (oaristḗs)
  • ὀαριστύς (oaristús)
  • ὄαρος (óaros)

References
  1. Kim, Ronald I. "The Celtic Feminine Numerals ‘3’ and ‘4’ Revisited", in Keltische Forschungen 3 (2008), 143-69; abstract 319-20.

Further reading
  • “ὄαρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “ὄαρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “ὄαρ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • ὄαρ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • ὄαρ in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • 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
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