ὀρυά

See also: ὀρύα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ὀρύσσω (orússō, “to dig”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /o.ry.ǎː/ → /o.ryˈa/ → /o.riˈa/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /o.ry.ǎː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /o.ryˈa/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /o.ryˈa/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /o.ryˈa/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /o.riˈa/

Noun

ὀρῠᾱ́ • (orŭā́) f (genitive ὀρῠᾶς); first declension

1. kind of quarrying tool, perhaps a pickaxe

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ὀρῠᾱ́; τῆς ὀρῠᾶς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ὀρῠᾱ́ hē orŭā́	τὼ ὀρῠᾱ́ tṑ orŭā́	αἱ ὀρῠαί hai orŭaí
Genitive	τῆς ὀρῠᾶς tês orŭâs	τοῖν ὀρῠαῖν toîn orŭaîn	τῶν ὀρῠῶν tôn orŭôn
Dative	τῇ ὀρῠᾷ têi orŭâi	τοῖν ὀρῠαῖν toîn orŭaîn	ταῖς ὀρῠαῖς taîs orŭaîs
Accusative	τὴν ὀρῠᾱ́ν tḕn orŭā́n	τὼ ὀρῠᾱ́ tṑ orŭā́	τᾱ̀ς ὀρῠᾱ́ς tā̀s orŭā́s
Vocative	ὀρῠᾱ́ orŭā́	ὀρῠᾱ́ orŭā́	ὀρῠαί orŭaí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “ὀρυά”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὀρυά in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• 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