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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *hédrā, from Proto-Indo-European *sedreh₂, from *sed- (“to sit”) (whence ἕζομαι (hézomai, “I sit”) and many others).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hé.draː/ → /ˈe.ðra/ → /ˈe.ðra/
Noun
ἕδρᾱ • (hédrā) f (genitive ἕδρᾱς); first declension
- seat, chair, stool, bench
- seat, abode, throne
- seat, place, base
- (in the plural) quarters of the sky in which omens appeared
- seat of a physiological process
- back (of a horse on which a rider sits)
- the act of sitting
- sitting still, inactivity, delay
- position
- sitting, session
- seat, breech, fundament
- (of animals) rump
- (geometry) face of a regular solid
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References
- “ἕδρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἕδρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἕδρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἕδρα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- “ἕδρα”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- ἕδρα 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.
- abiding-place idem, page 2.
- abode idem, page 2.
- attitude idem, page 51.
- bench idem, page 73.
- chair idem, page 122.
- delay idem, page 207.
- dwelling idem, page 257.
- habitation idem, page 380.
- home idem, page 403.
- inaction idem, page 427.
- perch idem, page 607.
- posture idem, page 629.
- seat idem, page 746.
- sitting idem, page 779.
- suppliant idem, page 840.
- temple idem, page 860.
- throne idem, page 870.