οおみくろんὐρά

See also: ούρα and ουρά

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ers- [or Proto-Indo-European *h₃érsos (“backside, buttocks”)]. Related to ὄρρος (órrhos).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /uː.rǎː/ → /uˈra/ → /uˈra/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /uː.rǎː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /uˈra/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /uˈra/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /uˈra/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /uˈra/

• Hyphenation: οおみくろんὐ‧ρά

Noun

οおみくろんὐρろーᾱ́ • (ourā́) f (genitive οおみくろんὐρろーᾶς); first declension

1. the tail, of a lion, dog etc.
2. (of an army marching) the rear-guard, rear

Declension

First declension of ἡ οおみくろんὐρろーᾱ́; τたうῆς οおみくろんὐρろーᾶς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ οおみくろんὐρろーᾱ́ hē ourā́	τたうὼ οおみくろんὐρろーᾱ́ tṑ ourā́	αあるふぁἱ οおみくろんὐραί hai ouraí
Genitive	τたうῆς οおみくろんὐρろーᾶς tês ourâs	τたうοおみくろんῖνにゅー οおみくろんὐρろーαあるふぁῖνにゅー toîn ouraîn	τたうῶνにゅー οおみくろんὐρろーῶνにゅー tôn ourôn
Dative	τたうῇ οおみくろんὐρろーᾷ têi ourâi	τたうοおみくろんῖνにゅー οおみくろんὐρろーαあるふぁῖνにゅー toîn ouraîn	τたうαあるふぁῖς οおみくろんὐρろーαあるふぁῖς taîs ouraîs
Accusative	τたうὴνにゅー οおみくろんὐρろーᾱ́νにゅー tḕn ourā́n	τたうὼ οおみくろんὐρろーᾱ́ tṑ ourā́	τたうᾱ̀ς οおみくろんὐρろーᾱ́ς tā̀s ourā́s
Vocative	οおみくろんὐρろーᾱ́ ourā́	οおみくろんὐρろーᾱ́ ourā́	οおみくろんὐραί ouraí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἀλωπέκουρος (alōpékouros)
• κόλουρος (kólouros)
• μみゅーᾰκρόουρος (makróouros)
• οおみくろんὐραχός (ourakhós)
• οおみくろんὐροβόρος (ourobóros)
• σκίουρος (skíouros)

 

Descendants

• Greek: ουρά (ourá)
• Latin: Ischnura

References

• 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, page 1127
• “οおみくろんὐρά”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “οおみくろんὐρά”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• οおみくろんὐρά in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G3769 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.
  • rear idem, page 676.
  • tail idem, page 852.