Orcus

See also: orcus

English

Orcus's planetary symbol ⟨🝿⟩

Etymology

From Latin Orcus. Doublet of ogre and orc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔːrkəs/

Proper noun

Orcus

2. (Roman mythology) The Etruscan and Roman god of the underworld.

   Coordinate terms: Hades, Pluto

   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene i:

     Then ſhall our footmen lie within the trench,
     And with their Cannons mouth’d like Orcus gulfe
     Batter the wales, and we will enter in:
     And thus the Grecians ſhalbe conquered.

4. (astronomy) A dwarf planet and plutino, sometimes referred to as the “anti-Pluto”.

   Hypernym: plutino

Synonyms

• (celestial body): 🝿

Translations

god

• Esperanto: Orko (eo)
• French: Orcus (fr)
• Polish: Orkus (pl) m
• Russian: О́ркус m (Órkus)
• Spanish: orco (es) m

dwarf planet

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 亡神星 (zh) (Wángshénxīng)

• Esperanto: Orko (eo)
• French: Orcus (fr)
• Polish: Orkus (pl) m
• Russian: Орк (ru) f (Ork)
• Spanish: Orcus m

See also

• (most likely dwarf planets of the Solar System) Ceres, Orcus, Pluto, Haumea, Quaoar, Makemake, Gonggong, Eris, Sedna

Further reading

• Orcus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• 90482 Orcus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• cours, scour, sucro-

Latin

Alternative forms

• Orchus (Medieval Latin)

Etymology

Unknown. Some refer it to Proto-Indo-European *h₂erk- (“to hold, shut in”), others to Ancient Greek ὅρκος (hórkos, “oath”), whence Proto-Italic *orkos.

Proper noun

Orcus m (genitive Orcī); second declension

1. the underworld
2. (Roman mythology) Orcus (god of the underworld)
3. (New Latin, astronomy) Orcus (dwarf planet)
4. death

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	Orcus	Orcī
genitive	Orcī	Orcōrum
dative	Orcō	Orcīs
accusative	Orcum	Orcōs
ablative	Orcō	Orcīs
vocative	Orce	Orcī

Derived terms

• Orcīnus

Descendants

See also descendants at orcus.

• Old French: ogre
  • French: ogre (see there for further descendants)
• Galician: orco
• Italian: orco
  • → Bavarian: Orke (Tyrol)
  • → Cimbrian: orko
  • → English: orc (see there for further descendants)
  • → German: Ork, Orke, Org
  • → Luxembourgish: Ork
  • → Mòcheno: ork
• Piedmontese: òrch
• Old Spanish: huerco
  • Spanish: huerco
• → Middle Dutch: orck
  • Dutch: ork (regional)
• → Old English: orc
• → Portuguese: Orco
• → Sicilian: orcu
• → Spanish: orco

References

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