ocris

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ-

Proto-Indo-European *-rós

Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱrós

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *h₂óḱris

Proto-Italic *okris

Latin ocris

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɔ.krɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɔː.kris]

Noun

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

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

• mediocris

References

• “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), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN