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I don't think that's likely. Tom Send a noteboard - 03/01/2012 10:44:15 PM
Orcus is one of the old gods of Latium and predates the Greek influences, just like Pomona and Tellus. The very fact that a second god, Pluto, is associated with many of the same things, is probably because Orcus predates the Greek influences.

Also, the Greek word begins with aspiration, which would mean that it would likely have been Horcus in that case (case in point - ωρα becomes hora). I'm not going to speculate on whether or not they might both derive from the same Indo-European root, but it seems safe to say that the Latin term did not derive from the Greek.
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ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius

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The OED word of the day - 03/01/2012 12:13:45 PM 534 Views
Very good. - 03/01/2012 02:20:29 PM 501 Views
Tolkien really broke with principles on that one. - 03/01/2012 02:47:27 PM 430 Views
According to him, he was reviving the Old English word for "demon". - 03/01/2012 06:35:49 PM 442 Views
Which, in turn, is from the Latin Orcus. - 03/01/2012 06:49:33 PM 425 Views
And then there's Ariosto's orcs - 03/01/2012 07:16:15 PM 399 Views
I had to buy that in paperback from amazon.it... *NM* - 03/01/2012 10:44:39 PM 148 Views
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Ends up coming from ορκος (Oath) I think. *NM* - 03/01/2012 07:23:42 PM 226 Views
I don't think that's likely. - 03/01/2012 10:44:15 PM 372 Views
And looking at my dictionary... - 03/01/2012 10:47:16 PM 347 Views
Nonetheless, it was a word in Old English. - 04/01/2012 11:12:39 AM 399 Views
Nothing is banned. The point is it wasn't an "English" word. - 04/01/2012 02:38:22 PM 411 Views

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