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ocris

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Etymology

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From Proto-Italic *okris, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂óḱris. Cognate with Ancient Greek ὄκρις (ókris), Old High German ecka, and Sanskrit अश्रि (áśri).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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ocris m (genitive ocris); third declension

  1. (Old Latin) a broken, rugged, stony mountain; a crag
    • 3rd century BCE, Livius Andronicus, fragments cited by Festus, p. 192.1–4, 5, 6:
      ocrem antiqui, ut Ateius Philologus in libro Glosematorum refert, montem confragosum vocabant, ut aput Livium:
      ocrem is what the ancients, as Ateius the Grammarian relates in his book of glosses, call a rocky mountain, as in Livius:
      • [] sed qui sunt hi, qui ascendunt altum ocrim?
        [] but who are these men who are climbing the high crag?
      • [] celsosque ocris / arvaque putria et mare magnum []
        [] the high crags, / the crumbling earth, and the vast sea []
      • [] namque Taenari celsos ocris
        [] for the high crags of Taenarus

Declension

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Third-declension noun (i-stem).

singular plural
nominative ocris ocrēs
genitive ocris ocrium
dative ocrī ocribus
accusative ocrem ocrēs
ocrīs
ablative ocre ocribus
vocative ocris ocrēs

Derived terms

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References

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  • ocris”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • ocris in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN