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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *móřřā , o -grade of the root of μείρομαι ( meíromai , “ to receive as one's portion ” ) + -ιᾰ ( -ia , feminine suffix ) .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /môi̯.ra/ → /ˈmy.ra/ → /ˈmi.ra/
Noun
μοῖρᾰ • (moîra ) f (genitive μοίρᾱς ) ; first declension
part , portion
degree
political party
lot , destiny
Synonym: τύχη ( túkhē )
that which is right
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Further reading
“μοῖρα ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940 ) A Greek–English Lexicon , Oxford: Clarendon Press
“μοῖρα ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889 ) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon , New York: Harper & Brothers
“μοῖρα ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891 ) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges , New York: Harper and Brothers
μοῖρα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924 ) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition , Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
“μοῖρα ”, in Slater, William J. (1969 ) Lexicon to Pindar , Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
μοῖρα in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007 ) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries ], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910 ) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language , London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited . death idem, page 198.destiny idem, page 217.division idem, page 244.dole idem, page 246.doom idem, page 247.fate idem, page 309.lot idem, page 501.office idem, page 571.parcel idem, page 592.part idem, page 593.piece idem, page 611.portion idem, page 627.section idem, page 747.share idem, page 762.
Bauer, Walter et al. (2001 ) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature , Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
μοῖρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935 ) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français , Paris: Hachette