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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
Unknown; possibly loaned from a Pre-Greek substrate or other regional language. Has been tentatively and inconclusively compared with χᾰ́ος (kháos, “empty space, abyss, chasm”) as well as χατέω (khatéō, “to lack, miss, need, desire”); Beekes dismisses these connections as unfounded. No apparent cognates outside of Greek.
Beekes however compares χήρα (khḗra, “widow”), assuming common derivation from the Proto-Indo-European root *ǵʰeh₁- (“to leave behind”), which would not make it related to χατέω (khatéō).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kʰɔ̌ː.raː/ → /ˈxo.ra/ → /ˈxo.ra/
Noun
χώρᾱ • (khṓrā) f (genitive χώρᾱς); first declension
- location, place, spot (see Latin locus)
- the proper place
- one's place in life
- piece of land: tract, land, field
- country (opposite town), countryside
- country, nation
Declension
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “χώρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “χώρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- χώρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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
- “χώρα”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G5561 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- atarneus idem, page 49.
- country idem, page 178.
- domain idem, page 246.
- dominion idem, page 247.
- estate idem, page 283.
- ilian idem, page 414.
- land idem, page 475.
- landscape idem, page 475.
- picenum idem, page 611.
- place idem, page 616.
- position idem, page 628.
- post idem, page 629.
- province idem, page 654.
- quarter idem, page 663.
- region idem, page 687.
- room idem, page 721.
- scenery idem, page 738.
- situation idem, page 780.
- space idem, page 797.
- spot idem, page 804.
- territory idem, page 863.
- tract idem, page 885.
- vacancy idem, page 941.
- zone idem, page 997.
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
- χώρα - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.
Greek
Noun
χώρα • (chóra) f (plural χώρες)
- (geography) main town or village
- (geography) country, (especially) homeland, country of birth
- Synonym: πατρίδα (patrída)
Η Σκωτία είναι χώρα που αποτελεί τμήμα του ΗΒ.- I Skotía eínai chóra pou apoteleí tmíma tou IV.
- Scotland is a country that is part of the UK.
Declension
declension of χώρα
| case \ number
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singular
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plural
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| nominative
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χώρα •
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χώρες •
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| genitive
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χώρας •
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χωρών •
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| accusative
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χώρα •
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χώρες •
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| vocative
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χώρα •
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χώρες •
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Coordinate terms
Related terms
- ενδοχώρα f (endochóra, “hinterland”)
- χωράφι n (choráfi, “field”)
- χωριό n (chorió, “village”)
- χώρος m (chóros, “environment”)
- χωρώ (choró, “to hold”)
Verb
χώρα • (chóra)
- 2nd person singular imperfective imperative form of χωρώ (choró).
- 2nd person singular perfective imperative form of χωρώ (choró).