ὀπώρα

• ὀπώρη (opṓrē) — Ionic
• ὀπάρα (opára)
• ὁπώρα (hopṓra)

Seems to be a contraction of an original *ὀποσάρα (*oposára), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi (“on, at”) (whence ἐπῐ́ (epí)) + *(s)h₁ósr̥, a variant of *(s)h₁ésō (“harvest season”), from *(s)h₁es- (“crop, harvest”); the exact formation *(s)h₁ósr̥ is found also in Old Armenian ար-ա-ց (ar-a-cʻ). Other cognates include Russian о́сень (ósenʹ), Gothic 𐌰𐍃𐌰𐌽𐍃 (asans), and Old English earnian (English earn).^[1]

ὀπώρᾱ • (opṓrā) f (genitive ὀπώρᾱς); first declension

1. the part of the year between the rising of Sirius and of Arcturus (i. e. the end of July, all August and part of September), the end of summer; later it was used for autumn

   Coordinate terms: χειμών (kheimṓn), ἔαρ (éar), θέρος (théros)

2. fruit itself (extended from its use for the fruit-time)
3. (figuratively) summer-bloom; i.e. the bloom of youth

• “ὀπώρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὀπώρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ὀπώρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “ὀπώρα”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G3703 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.
  • autumn idem, page 54.
  • fall idem, page 303.
  • fruit idem, page 347.