urus

See also: Urus and uruş

English

Etymology 1

From Latin ūrus. Doublet of ure (aurochs).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈjʊəɹəs/

Noun

urus (plural uri or uruses)

  1. The aurochs.
    • 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book VIII.] Of Scythian beasts, and those that are bred in the North parts.”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. [], 1st tome, London: [] Adam Islip, →OCLC, pages 199–200:
      Howbeit, that country bringeth forth certain kinds of goodly great wild bœufes: to wit, the Biſontes, mained with a collar, like Lions: and the Vri, a mightie ſtrong beaſt, and a ſwift: which the ignorant people call Buffles, whereas indeed the Buffle is bred in Affrica, and carieth ſome reſemblance of a calfe rather, or a ſtag.
    • 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:
      He also brought forth two large drinking cups, made out of the horn of the urus, and hooped with silver.
    • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 123:
      Eduard Hahn has postulated that the motive for capturing and maintaining the urus in the captive state was to have available a supply, for sacrificial purposes, of the animal sacred to the lunar mother goddess worshipped over an immense area of the ancient world.

Noun

urus (plural uruses)

  1. Synonym of jatra (annual village festival in India)

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay urus, from Classical Malay hurus, urus.

Verb

urus

  1. to manage (to direct or be in charge)
  2. to manage (to handle or control a situation or job)

Synonyms

Irish

Adjective

urus

  1. Obsolete form of furasta.

Mutation

Irish mutation
RadicalEclipsiswith h-prothesiswith t-prothesis
urus n-urus hurus not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Latin

Etymology

According to Julius Caesar, of Celtic origin. Perhaps indirectly related to Proto-Germanic *ūraz.

Pronunciation

Noun

ūrus m (genitive ūrī); second declension

  1. an aurochs

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative ūrus ūrī
Genitive ūrī ūrōrum
Dative ūrō ūrīs
Accusative ūrum ūrōs
Ablative ūrō ūrīs
Vocative ūre ūrī

Descendants

  • Ancient Greek: οὖρος (oûros)
  • Catalan: ur
  • English: ure, urus
  • French: ure
  • Italian: uro
  • Portuguese: uro
  • Spanish: uro

References

  • urus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • urus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • urus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Malay

Pronunciation

Verb

urus (Jawi spelling اوروس)

  1. to manage (to direct or be in charge)
  2. to manage (to handle or control a situation or job)

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Indonesian: urus
  • Komodo: uru
  • Makasar: urusuʔ
  • Manggarai: urus

Further reading

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