φορά

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From φέρω (phérō, “to bring, bear, carry”) +‎ -η (-ē).

Pronunciation

Noun

φορά • (phorá) f (genitive φορᾶς); first declension

1. an act
2. (from the active voice)
   1. carrying
      1. gestation
   2. bringing in of money, payment
   3. bringing forth, productiveness
3. (from the passive voice)
   1. being borne or carried along, motion
   2. rapid motion, rush
   3. (of persons) impulse; tendency; line of thought or action
   4. time, occasion
4. (as a thing) that which is borne
   1. load, freight, burden
   2. rent, tribute
   3. that which is brought forth, fruit, produce, crop

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

• Greek: φορά (forá)

Further reading

• “φορά”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “φορά”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• φορά in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “φορά”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • bearing idem, page 67.
  • course idem, page 178.
  • drift idem, page 252.
  • fecundity idem, page 313.
  • fertility idem, page 316.
  • force idem, page 335.
  • fruitfulness idem, page 348.
  • gravitation idem, page 371.
  • motion idem, page 542.
  • pace idem, page 588.
  • payment idem, page 600.
  • poise idem, page 624.
  • range idem, page 670.
  • rate idem, page 673.
  • reach idem, page 675.
  • revolution idem, page 711.
  • rotation idem, page 722.
  • shot idem, page 769.
  • speed idem, page 800.
  • sway idem, page 847.
  • sweep idem, page 847.
  • swing idem, page 849.
  • tendency idem, page 861.
  • tenor idem, page 862.
  • tide idem, page 873.
  • trend idem, page 893.
  • tribute idem, page 894.
  • velocity idem, page 946.
  • wave idem, page 967.
  • whirl idem, page 976.

Greek

Etymology

Inherited from Ancient Greek φορά (phorá).

Noun

φορά • (forá) f (plural φορές)

1. time (instance or occurrence)

   την πρώτη φορά ― tin próti forá ― the first time

2. (mathematics) times

   πέντε φορές ― pénte forés ― five times

3. speed, impetus

Declension

See also

• χρόνος m (chrónos) (time, tense, year)
• περίοδος f (períodos) (time, period, season)