urus
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈjʊəɹəs/
Noun
- The aurochs.
- 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:
- He also brought forth two large drinking cups, made out of the horn of the urus, and hooped with silver.
- 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 123:
- Eduard Hahn has postulated that the motive for capturing and maintaining the urus in the captive state was to have available a supply, for sacrificial purposes, of the animal sacred to the lunar mother goddess worshipped over an immense area of the ancient world.
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Indonesian
Etymology
From Malay urus, from Classical Malay hurus, urus.
Latin
Etymology
According to Julius Caesar, of Celtic origin. Perhaps indirectly related to Proto-Germanic *ūraz.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈuː.rus/, [ˈuːrʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈu.rus/, [ˈuːrus]
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | ūrus | ūrī |
Genitive | ūrī | ūrōrum |
Dative | ūrō | ūrīs |
Accusative | ūrum | ūrōs |
Ablative | ūrō | ūrīs |
Vocative | ūre | ūrī |
Descendants
References
- “urus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “urus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- urus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
Malay
Pronunciation
- (Johor-Selangor) IPA(key): /uros/
- (Riau-Lingga) IPA(key): /urʊs/
- Rhymes: -uros, -ros, -os
Verb
urus (Jawi spelling اوروس)
Further reading
- “urus” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
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