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|etymtx=Grammatical information: n.<br />Meaning: [[mountain]], [[height]]; also (in Egypt) [[desert]] in contrast to cultivated plain (Il.).<br />Other forms: w. metr. length. <b class="b3">οὔρ-εος</b>, <b class="b3">-εα</b> etc. (ep.), also <b class="b3">ὤρ-εος</b>, <b class="b3">-εα</b> (Theoc.); Megar. <b class="b3">ὄρρος</b> and Chalcid. (RPh. 71, 1997, 170)<br />Compounds: As 1. member 1. w. unenlarged stem a.o. in <b class="b3">ὀρεσκῳ̃ος</b> (s. v.); 2. themat. enlarged e.g. in <b class="b3">ὀρεο-σέλινον</b> n. <b class="b2">mountain-parsley</b> (Thphr.; Risch IF 59, 257, Strömberg Pflanzn. 33 a. 116); 3. often in dat. sg. (= loc.), e.g. <b class="b3">ὀρει-δρόμος</b> <b class="b2">roming in the mountains</b> (Pi., E., Nonn.), after thir a.o. <b class="b3">ὀρεί-χαλκος</b> m. <b class="b2">mountain ore, brass</b> (h. Hom. 6, 9, Hes. Sc. 122; Risch 59, 27; on the meaning Michell ClassRev. 69, 21 f.), Lat. LW [loanword] [[orichalcum]], folketym. <b class="b2">auri-</b>; also <b class="b3">ὠρό-χαλκος</b> (Peripl. M. Rubr., PGiss. 47, 6; <b class="b3">-ο-</b> in comp.boundary, <b class="b3">ὠ-</b> = Lat. <b class="b2">au-</b>?); 4. in dat. pl., e.g. <b class="b3">ὀρεσί-τροφος</b> <b class="b2">grown up in the mountains</b> (Hom.).<br />Derivatives: 1. <b class="b3">ὀρέσ-τερος</b> <b class="b2">living in the mountains, to consist of mountains</b> (Χ 93; Chantraine Études 36 w. n.3 a. lit.); 2. <b class="b3">ὄρειος</b> (= <b class="b3">*ὄρεσ-ιος</b>), ep. lyr. <b class="b3">οὔρ-</b>, [[mountainous]] (h.Merc. 244), f. <b class="b3">-ειάς</b> (AP), as subst. <b class="b2">mountain-nymph</b> (Bion, Nonn.); 3. <b class="b3">ὀρεινός</b> (< <b class="b3">*ὀρεσ-νός</b>) <b class="b2">id.</b> (IA.); 4. <b class="b3">Όρέσ-της</b> m. PN (Il.) with <b class="b3">Όρεστ-άδης</b> (Fraenkel Nom. ag. 2, 184), <b class="b3">ὀρέστ(ε)ιον</b> n. = <b class="b3">ἑλένιον</b> (Dsc., Plin.; Strömberg Pflanzenn. 102); <b class="b3">Όρέσ-ται</b> m. pl. "highlander", name of an Epeirotic people (Th.); <b class="b3">ὀρεστ-ιάδες νύμφαι</b> (Ζ 420, h. Hom. 19, 19); metr. for <b class="b3">*ὀρεστ-άδ-</b> (Schwyzer 508); <b class="b3">ὀρεστ-ίας</b> m. <b class="b2">mountain wind</b> (Call.; like <b class="b3">Όλυμπίας</b> a.o., Chantraine Form. 95); 5. <b class="b3">ὀρώδης</b> [[mountainous]] (EM).<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [326] <b class="b2">*h₃er-</b> [[rise]]<br />Etymology: Prop. prob. *"elevation" as verbal noun of [[ὄρνυμαι]], <b class="b3">ὀρέσθαι</b> <b class="b2">rise etc.</b> (s.v. w. lit.); cf. Chantraine Form. 417, Schwyzer 512 and Porzig Satzinhalte 300 (so <b class="b2">*h₃er-os</b>). A further deriv. of this <b class="b2">s-</b>stems may be found in Skt. <b class="b2">r̥ṣ-vá-</b> <b class="b2">ricing up, high</b>; vgl. auch [[ὄρρος]] und [[ὀρσοθύρη]].

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