μοῖρα
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From o-grade of the root of μείρομαι (meíromai, “to receive as one's portion”) + -ιᾰ (-ia, feminine suffix).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /môi̯.ra/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈmy.ra/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmy.ra/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmy.ra/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈmi.ra/
Noun
μοῖρᾰ • (moîra) f (genitive μοίρᾱς); first declension
- part, portion
- political party
- lot, destiny
- that which is right
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ μοῖρᾰ hē moîra |
τὼ μοίρᾱ tṑ moírā |
αἱ μοῖραι hai moîrai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς μοίρᾱς tês moírās |
τοῖν μοίραιν toîn moírain |
τῶν μοιρῶν tôn moirôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ μοίρᾳ têi moírāi |
τοῖν μοίραιν toîn moírain |
ταῖς μοίραις taîs moírais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν μοῖρᾰν tḕn moîran |
τὼ μοίρᾱ tṑ moírā |
τᾱ̀ς μοίρᾱς tā̀s moírās | ||||||||||
Vocative | μοῖρᾰ moîra |
μοίρᾱ moírā |
μοῖραι moîrai | ||||||||||
Notes: |
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Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ μοῖρᾰ hē moîra |
τὼ μοίρᾱ tṑ moírā |
αἱ μοῖραι hai moîrai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς μοίρης tês moírēs |
τοῖν μοίραιν toîn moírain |
τῶν μοιρέων / μοιρῶν tôn moiréōn / moirôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ μοίρῃ têi moírēi |
τοῖν μοίραιν toîn moírain |
τῇσῐ / τῇσῐν μοίρῃσῐ / μοίρῃσῐν têisi(n) moírēisi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν μοῖρᾰν tḕn moîran |
τὼ μοίρᾱ tṑ moírā |
τᾱ̀ς μοίρᾱς tā̀s moírās | ||||||||||
Vocative | μοῖρᾰ moîra |
μοίρᾱ moírā |
μοῖραι moîrai | ||||||||||
Notes: |
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Derived terms
- Μοιροκλῆς (Moiroklês)
Related terms
- Μοῖρᾰ (Moîra)
Descendants
- Greek: μοίρα (moíra)
Further reading
- μοῖρα in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- μοῖρα in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- μοῖρα in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- μοῖρα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- μοῖρα in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- μοῖρα 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.
- Death idem, page 1008.
- Fate idem, page 1010.
- death idem, page 198.
- destiny idem, page 217.
- division idem, page 244.
- dole idem, page 246.
- doom idem, page 247.
- fate idem, page 309.
- lot idem, page 501.
- office idem, page 571.
- parcel idem, page 592.
- part idem, page 593.
- piece idem, page 611.
- portion idem, page 627.
- section idem, page 747.
- share idem, page 762.
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- μοῖρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
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