• οὖρος(oûros) —Epic, Lyric
• ὦρος(ôros) —Doric

Either fromὄρνυμι(órnumi,“I raise”), or possibly directly from aProto-Indo-European*h₃eros; either way, derived from the root*h₃er-(“to rise, spring, stir”).^[1]

CompareSanskritऋष्व(ṛṣvá). Possibly related are the personal namesὈρειάς(Oreiás),Mycenaean Greek𐀃𐀩𐁀(o-re-a2,“Oreās”), andὈρέστης(Oréstēs),Mycenaean Greek𐀃𐀩𐀲(o-re-ta,“Orestās”).^[2]

The sense "desert" is asemantic loan fromDemotictw(“mountain, desert”), fromEgyptianḏw(“mountain”).

ὄρος• (óros) n (genitiveὄρεοςorὄρουςorοὔρεος);third declension

1. amountain,hill
2. mountain chain
3. district,sector,precinct,parish
4. (Egyptian)desert

• ὀρεσίτροφος(oresítrophos)
• ὀροφῠ́λᾰξ(orophŭ́lăx)

• Greek:όρος n(óros,“mountain”)
• Mariupol Greek:о́рус n(órus,“forest”)
• → English:oro-
• → Italian:oro-

• “ὄρος”, inLiddell & Scott (1940),A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὄρος”, inLiddell & Scott (1889),An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ὄρος”, inAutenrieth, Georg (1891),A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ὄρος inCunliffe, Richard J. (1924),A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published1963
• “ὄρος”, inSlater, William J. (1969),Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G3735 inStrong, James (1979),Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• ὄρος inTrapp, 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.
  • hill idem, page 400.
  • mountain idem, page 543.
  • range idem, page 670.
• Pokorny, Julius (1959),Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag,page326
• 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
• Cuvigny, Hélène (2018), “A Survey of Place-Names in the Egyptian Eastern Desert during the Principate according to the Ostraca and the Inscriptions”, in Jean-Pierre Brun, Thomas Faucher, Bérangère Redon et Steven Sidebotham, editors,The Eastern Desert of Egypt during the Greco-Roman Period: Archaeological Reports‎^[2], Paris: Collège du France / Open Edition,→DOI,§ 195,page125

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