orcus

See also: Orcus

Latin

Etymology

See Orcus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈor.kus/, [ˈɔrkʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈor.kus/, [ˈɔrkus]

Noun

orcus m (genitive orcī); second declension

1. underworld
2. afterlife

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	orcus	orcī
genitive	orcī	orcōrum
dative	orcō	orcīs
accusative	orcum	orcōs
ablative	orcō	orcīs
vocative	orce	orcī

Descendants

See also descendants at Orcus.

• → Middle French: orque (“hell”)
• → Spanish: orco (“hell”)

References

• orcus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the world below: inferi (Orcus and Tartarus only poetical)
    
• “orcus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “orcus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray