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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *worā, from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to note, sense”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɔ̌ː.raː/ → /ˈo.ra/ → /ˈo.ra/
Noun
ὤρᾱ • (ṓrā) f (genitive ὤρᾱς); first declension
- care, concern
406 BCE,
Sophocles,
Oedipus at Colonus 385–386:
- Ἤδη γὰρ ἔσχες ἐλπίδ’ ὡς ἐμοῦ θεούς / ὤραν τιν’ ἔξειν, (...)
- Ḗdē gàr éskhes elpíd’ hōs emoû theoús / ṓran tin’ éxein, (...)
- Have you even now got hope that for me the gods / will have any concern, (...)
Inflection
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Further reading
- “ὤρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὤρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ὤρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- “ὤρα”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011