οὐρᾶς (ouras)

οὐρᾶς is an Ancient Greek form of οὐρά, meaning “tail”. It is the accusative plural feminine noun.

Found 52 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 7.1.4: … ὖν τινὸς ἤκουσε τοῦ Κράτητος· ὅτε καὶ τὴν Πολιτείαν αὐτοῦ γράψαντος, τινὲς ἔλεγον παίζοντες ἐπὶ τῆς τοῦ κυνὸς οὐρᾶς αὐτὴν γεγραφέναι. γέγραφε δὲ πρὸς τῇ Πολιτείᾳ καὶ τάδε· Περὶ τοῦ κατὰ φύσιν βίου. Περὶ ὁρμῆς ἢ περὶ ἀνθρώπου …

Plutarch, Fabius Maximus 6.6: … νέμειναν τῇ τάξει τῆς πορείας, ἀλλʼ ἔκφοβοι καὶ περιαλγεῖς οὖσαι δρόμῳ κατὰ τῶν ὀρῶν ἐφέροντο, λαμπόμεναι μὲν οὐρὰς ἄκρας καὶ μέτωπα, πολλὴν δὲ τῆς ὕλης, διʼ ἧς ἔφευγον, ἀνάπτουσαι.

Aristophanes, Birds 457: σὺ δὲ τοῦθʼ οὑρᾷς λέγʼ ἐς κοινόν.

All forms of οὐρά (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.