orcus

== Latin == === Etymology === See Orcus. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɔr.kʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈɔr.kus] === Noun === orcus m (genitive orcī); second declension underworld afterlife ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== See also descendants at Orcus. → Italian: orco (“hell”) → Middle French: orque (“hell”) → Spanish: orco (“hell”) === References === “orcus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. “orcus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “orcus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray