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 • (oruā́) 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 oruā́	τὼ ὀρῠᾱ́ tṑ oruā́	αἱ ὀρῠαί hai oruaí
Genitive	τῆς ὀρῠᾶς tês oruâs	τοῖν ὀρῠαῖν toîn oruaîn	τῶν ὀρῠῶν tôn oruôn
Dative	τῇ ὀρῠᾷ têi oruâi	τοῖν ὀρῠαῖν toîn oruaîn	ταῖς ὀρῠαῖς taîs oruaîs
Accusative	τὴν ὀρῠᾱ́ν tḕn oruā́n	τὼ ὀρῠᾱ́ tṑ oruā́	τᾱ̀ς ὀρῠᾱ́ς tā̀s oruā́s
Vocative	ὀρῠᾱ́ oruā́	ὀρῠᾱ́ oruā́	ὀρῠαί oruaí
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