A.“-ύσομαι” LXX Ho.11.10: aor. “ὠρυ_σάμην” Pi.O.9.109:—Ion. and poet. Verb, very rarely used in Att. (v. infr.), howl, prop. of wolves and dogs, Call.Fr.423, Theoc.2.35, Coluth. 116, D.S.1.87; of lions, roar, A.R.4.1339; of animals generally, Plu.2.973a, LXX Wi.17.19; ὄρθιον ὤρυσαι Pi.l.c., cf. LXX Ps.37(38).9; of primitive folk, either in mourning, Hdt.3.117, or in joy, Id.4.75; “ὥσπερ ἀπόπληκτοι . . ὠρύονται” Pl.Com.130; of the sea, D.P.83.
ὠρύομαι [υ_], fut.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for entering this text.
hide
Dictionary Entry Lookup
Use this tool to search for dictionary entries in all lexica.
How to enter text in Greek:
