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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- ᾰ̓́ρ (ár) — before a consonant
- ᾰ̓́ρ’ (ár’) — apocopic
- ῥᾰ (rha) — after a monosyllabic word or a word ending in a vowel
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *h₂er-. Cognates include Lithuanian ir̃.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /á.ra/ → /ˈa.ra/ → /ˈa.ra/
Conjunction
ᾰ̓́ρᾰ • (ára)
- so, then, therefore, consequently
Further reading
- “ἄρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἄρα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἄρα 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
- ἄρα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- ἄρα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- “ἄρα”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G686 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.
- after idem, page 17.
- all idem, page 22.
- so idem, page 790.
- then idem, page 865.