οὖρος

According to Beekes, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃er- (“to move, stir, spring”), like ὄρνυμι (órnumi, “to awaken”).^[1]

οὖρος • (oûros) m (genitive οὔρου); second declension

1. fair wind
   • c. 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 11.11:

     ἴκμενον οὖρον ἵει πλησίστιον, ἐσθλὸν ἑταῖρον, Κίρκη εὐπλόκαμος

     íkmenon oûron híei plēsístion, esthlòn hetaîron, Kírkē euplókamos

     a fair wind that filled the sail, a goodly comrade, was sent by fair-tressed Circe

• “οὖρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press

From Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to note, sense”) and cognate with ὁράω (horáō, “to look, make sure, provide”).^[1] An alternate theory derives the word from Proto-Indo-European *sorwos (“guardian”), for which see Latin servus (“servant”) for more.

οὖρος • (oûros) m (genitive οὔρου); second declension

1. guardian; watcher
   • c. 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 15.89:

     οὐ γὰρ ὄπισθεν οὖρον ἰὼν κατέλειπον ἐπὶ κτεάτεσσιν ἐμοῖσιν

     ou gàr ópisthen oûron iṑn katéleipon epì kteátessin emoîsin

     I left behind no guardian to watch over my possessions

• “οὖρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press

From Latin ūrus.

οὖρος • (oûros) m (genitive οὔρου); second declension

1. aurochs; Bos primigenius

• “οὖρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press

οὖρος • (oûros) m (genitive οὔρου); second declension^[1]

1. Ionic form of ὅρος (hóros, “boundary; border”)

• “οὖρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press

οὖρος • (oûros) n (genitive οὔρεος or οὔρευς); third declension^[1]

1. Epic and Lyric form of ὄρος (óros, “mountain”)

• “οὖρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “οὖρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “οὖρος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• οὖρος in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• οὖρος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “οὖρος”, in Slater, William J. (1969), Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• οὖρος in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007), Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • breeze idem, page 97.
  • fair idem, page 302.
  • favourable idem, page 311.
  • prospering idem, page 653.
  • wafting idem, page 958.
  • wind idem, page 980.
• οὖρος, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011