Ascra

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English

Proper noun

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Ascra

  1. An ancient town in Boeotia which was the home of the poet Hesiod

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Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἄσκρα (Áskra).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Ascra f sg (genitive Ascrae); first declension

  1. An ancient town in Boeotia which was the home of the poet Hesiod
    • c. 24 BCE, Sextus Propertius, Elegies 2.13.4:
      Amor...iussit et Ascraeum sic habitare nemus.
      Love... ordered me thus to inhabit the groves of Ascra.

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

singular
nominative Ascra
genitive Ascrae
dative Ascrae
accusative Ascram
ablative Ascrā
vocative Ascra
locative Ascrae

Derived terms

References

  • “Ascra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Ascra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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