different between ouroboros vs ouroboric

English

Alternative forms

• uroboros

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????? (ourobóros, “tail-devouring”), a compound of ???? (ourá, “tail”) + -????? (-bóros, “-devouring”), which is derived from the verb ???????? (bibr?sk?, “to eat up”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /u??r?b??r?s/, /?u?r??b?r?s/
• enPR: o?o-r?b??-r?s, o?o-r?-b?r?-?s

Noun

ouroboros (plural ouroboroi or ouroboroses)

1. (mythology) A serpent, dragon or worm that eats its own tail, a representation of the continuous cycle of life and death.
   • 2004, Adrian Bejan et al., Porous and Complex Flow Structures in Modern Technologies, Springer Science & Business Media (?ISBN), page 121:

     One myth speaks of Ouroboros, a serpent-like creature that survived and regenerated itself by eating only its own tail. By neither taking from nor adding to its environment, this creature was said to be completely environmentally benign and self-sufficient.

2. A picture or symbol thereof.
   • 2013, Jackie DiSalvo, G. A. Rosso, Christopher Z. Hobson eds., Blake, Politics, and History, Routledge (?ISBN)

     First, the snake has not caught its tail—the ouroboros figure is uncompleted. Blake executed fully formed ouroboros figures for the verso of this Night Thoughts page and for a later passage (6:690-92), and was familiar with numerous full ouroboros figures from contemporary and earlier sources […]

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See also

• autocannibalism

Further reading

• ouroboros on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Alternative forms

• uroboric

Pronunciation

• (US) enPR: ôr-?-bôr'-?k IPA^(key): /????b???k/

Adjective

ouroboric

1. Self-referring, self-reflexive, self-consuming; recursive
2. Relating to the Ouroboros, a snake eating its own tail.

   What could be more ouroboric than members of the media who specialize in blaming the media.

   Going back in time and becoming one's own grandfather is a rather ouroboric endeavour

Related terms

• ouroboros / uroborus

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