Ὠρίων
See also: Ωρίων
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- Ὠᾰρῑ́ων (Ōarī́ōn)
Etymology
Possibly from Akkadian 𒌋𒊒𒀭𒈾 (Uru-anna, “heaven's light”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ɔː.rǐː.ɔːn/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /oˈri.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /oˈri.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /oˈri.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /oˈri.on/
Proper noun
Ὠρῑ́ων • (Ōrī́ōn) m (genitive Ὠρῑ́ωνος); third declension
- Orion
- (astronomy) the constellation Orion
- a fabulous Indian bird
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ Ὠρῑ́ων ho Ōrī́ōn | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ Ὠρῑ́ωνος toû Ōrī́ōnos | ||||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ Ὠρῑ́ωνῐ tôi Ōrī́ōni | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν Ὠρῑ́ωνᾰ tòn Ōrī́ōna | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | Ὠρῑ́ων Ōrī́ōn | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- Ὠᾰρῑώνειος (Ōarīṓneios)
Descendants
References
- “Ὠρίων”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Ὠρίων”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “Ὠρίων”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,019
- Ὠρίων in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
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