Orcus

See also: orcus

English

Orcus's planetary symbol 🝿

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɔːrkəs/

Proper noun

Orcus

  1. (Roman mythology) The Etruscan and Roman god of the underworld.
    Coordinate terms: Hades, Pluto
    • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. [] The First Part [], 2nd edition, part 1, London: [] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, [], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene i:
      Then ſhall our footmen lie within the trench,
      And with their Cannons mouth’d like Orcus gulfe
      Batter the wales, and we will enter in:
      And thus the Grecians ſhalbe conquered.
  2. (astronomy) A large planetoid (possibly a dwarf planet) and plutino, sometimes referred to as the “anti-Pluto”. Its moon is Vanth.
    Hypernym: plutino

Synonyms

  • (celestial body): 🝿 (U+15, 2022)

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Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Unknown. Some refer it to Proto-Indo-European *h₂erk- (to hold, shut in), others to Ancient Greek ὅρκος (hórkos, oath), whence Proto-Italic *orkos.[1]

Proper noun

Orcus m (genitive Orcī); second declension

  1. (Roman mythology) Orcus (god of the underworld)
  2. (New Latin, astronomy) Orcus (dwarf planet)
  3. the underworld
  4. death

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative Orcus Orcī
Genitive Orcī Orcōrum
Dative Orcō Orcīs
Accusative Orcum Orcōs
Ablative Orcō Orcīs
Vocative Orce Orcī

Derived terms

Descendants

See also descendants at orcus.

  • Old French: ogre
    • French: ogre (see there for further descendants)
  • Galician: orco
  • Italian: orco (see there for further descendants)
  • Piedmontese: òrch
  • Old Spanish: huerco
  • Middle Dutch: orck
    • Dutch: ork (regional)
  • Old English: orc
  • Portuguese: Orco
  • Sicilian: orcu
  • Spanish: orco

References

  • Orcus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Orcus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Orcus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  1. Wagenvoort, Studies in Roman Literature, Culture and Religion
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