oro- · prefix1
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁óh₃s
- Proto-Italic*ōs
- Latinōs
- English todayoro-
Derived from Latin ōs (“the mouth”).
oro- · prefix2
- Ancient Greek · derived fromὄρος“mountain, high ground”
- English todayoro-
From Ancient Greek ὄρος (óros, “mountain, high ground”), from ὄρνῡμῐ (órnūmĭ, “to stir, stir up; to urge on, incite”) + -ος (-os, nominal suffix).
Words from the same roots
Latinōs all →
osossuary-os-os clitoridisos coxaeos penisossatureossiferousossificossifyossilegium
Ancient Greekὄρος all →
orogeny
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.