Cora

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See also: cora, córa, and čora

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Etymology 1

Apparently brought up in English literature by James Fenimore Cooper in The Last of the Mohicans (1826), but compare a female heroine of this name in Jean-François Marmontel's Les Incas (1777) and the Ancient Greek epithet Κόρη (Kórē) for Περσεφόνη (Persephónē). It could also refer directly to κόρη (kórē, “maiden”).

Proper noun

Cora

  1. A female given name from Ancient Greek.
    • 1826, James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans/Chapter 2:
      The youth had turned to speak to the dark-eyed Cora, when the distant sound of horses hoofs, clattering over the roots of the broken way in his rear, caused him to check his charger;
    • 1990, Ed McBain, Vespers, Mandarin, published 1991, →ISBN, page 78:
      "Where are you from originally, Coral?" "Indiana." "Lots of Corals out there, I bet." She hesitated, seemed about to flare, and then smiled instead, showing a little gap between two front teeth. "Well, it was Cora Lucille, I guess, " she said, still smiling, looking very much like a Cora Lucille in that moment. Hawes imagined pigtails tied with polka-dot rags.

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Cora

  1. An indigenous people of west-central Mexico.
  2. The Uto-Aztecan language spoken by the Cora people.

Noun

Cora (plural Coras)

  1. A member of the Cora people.
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Latin

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Proper noun

Cora f sg (genitive Corae); first declension

  1. an ancient city in Latium, situated between Norba and Velitrae, now Cori

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

singular
nominative Cora
genitive Corae
dative Corae
accusative Coram
ablative Corā
vocative Cora
locative Corae

Derived terms

References

  • “Cŏra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “Cora”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
  • Cora in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Tagalog

Etymology

Clipping of Corazon.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Cora (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜓᜇ)

  1. a diminutive of the female given name Corazon
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