• ὄρϝος(órwos),ὄρβος(órbos) —Corcyraean
• ὦρος(ôros) —Arcadocypriot
• ὄρος(óros)
• οὖρος(oûros) —Ionic
• ὄρρος(órrhos) —Megarian

FromProto-Hellenic*wórwos (whenceMycenaean Greek𐀺𐀺(wo-wo)), perhaps from aProto-Indo-European*werw-(“to draw, mark out”), with cognates includingLatinurvō(“to trace a boundary”). See alsoἐρύω(erúō,“to draw”), which might be related.^[1]

ὅρος• (hóros) m (genitiveὅρου);second declension

1. (alsogeometry)boundary,limit,frontier,landmark
   • 350BCE – 250BCE,Euclid,Elements1:

     ὅρος ἐστίν, ὅ τινός ἐστι πέρας.

     hóros estín, hó tinós esti péras.

     • 2008 translation by Richard Fitzpatrick

       Aboundary is that which is the extremity of something.

2. markingstones, stones used for inscribing legal contracts
3. the broad wooden piece serving as the upper part of an oil/wine press
4. rule,standard
5. term,definition
6. goal,end,aim

• “ὅρος”, inLiddell & Scott (1940)A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὅρος”, inLiddell & Scott (1889)An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ὅρος inBailly, Anatole (1935)Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001)A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• “ὅρος”, inSlater, William J. (1969)Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910)English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • aim idem, page 21.
  • border idem, page 89.
  • bound idem, page 90.
  • boundary idem, page 91.
  • canon idem, page 111.
  • compass idem, page 150.
  • definition idem, page 205.
  • degree idem, page 206.
  • demarcation idem, page 209.
  • fringe idem, page 346.
  • frontier idem, page 347.
  • goal idem, page 365.
  • guiding idem, page 378.
  • horizon idem, page 406.
  • ideal idem, page 413.
  • landmark idem, page 475.
  • limit idem, page 492.
  • margin idem, page 514.
  • measure idem, page 520.
  • object idem, page 565.
  • principle idem, page 641.
  • restriction idem, page 706.
  • rule idem, page 725.
  • scope idem, page 740.
  • sphere idem, page 801.
  • standard idem, page 810.
  • term idem, page 862.
  • territory idem, page 863.
  • test idem, page 863.
  • tether idem, page 863.

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