A.watcher, guardian, “οὖρον ἰὼν κατέλειπον ἐπὶ κτεάτεσσι” Od.15.89; “Νέστωρ . . , οὖ. Α᾿χαιῶν” Il.8.80, 11.840, 15.370, Od.3.411; οὖ. Αἰακιδᾶν, of Achilles, Pi.I.8(7).60; “νήσου” A.R.4.1643; “βουκολίων” Opp.C.1.375; cf. ἐπίουρος, οὐρεύς. (I.-E. sorwos 'guardian', found also as second element in πυλωρός （πυλαουρός）, θυρωρός, φρουρός (fr. προ-ὁρ（ϝ）ος）, οἰχῶρος （οἰκουρός), etc., Avest. pasu(š)-haurva- 'cattle-guarding', epith. of a dog: cogn. with ἐρύω (B), q.v.: also with ὄρομαι （ἐπί), cf. Avest. haurvaiti and haraiti 'watches'.)
οὖρος (B), ὁ,
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.
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