χώρα

• χώρη (khṓrē) – Ionic

Unknown; possibly loaned from a Pre-Greek substrate or other regional language. Has been tentatively and inconclusively compared with χᾰ́ος (kháos, “empty space, abyss, chasm”) as well as χατέω (khatéō, “to lack, miss, need, desire”); Beekes dismisses these connections as unfounded. No apparent cognates outside of Greek.

Beekes however compares χήρα (khḗra, “widow”), assuming common derivation from the Proto-Indo-European root *ǵʰeh₁- (“to leave behind”), which would in fact make it related to χατέω (khatéō).

χώρᾱ • (khṓrā) f (genitive χώρᾱς); first declension

1. location, place, spot (see Latin locus)
2. the proper place
3. one's place in life
4. piece of land: tract, land, field
5. country (opposite town), countryside
6. country, nation

• → Coptic: ⲭⲱⲣⲁ (khōra)
• Greek: χώρα (chóra)
• English: isochoric
• English: epichoric

• χώρα in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• χώρα in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• χώρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• 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
• χώρα in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G5561 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • Atarneus idem, page 1003.
  • Ilian idem, page 1013.
  • Picenum idem, page 1022.
  • country idem, page 178.
  • domain idem, page 246.
  • dominion idem, page 247.
  • estate idem, page 283.
  • land idem, page 475.
  • landscape idem, page 475.
  • place idem, page 616.
  • position idem, page 628.
  • post idem, page 629.
  • province idem, page 654.
  • quarter idem, page 663.
  • region idem, page 687.
  • room idem, page 721.
  • scenery idem, page 738.
  • situation idem, page 780.
  • space idem, page 797.
  • spot idem, page 804.
  • territory idem, page 863.
  • tract idem, page 885.
  • vacancy idem, page 941.
  • zone idem, page 997.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill

χώρα • (chóra) f (plural χώρες)

1. (geography) country, land (the state, its people, a region of a country)

   αδέσμευτες χώρες ― adésmeftes chóres ― non-aligned countries

2. (geography) main town or village

• πατρίδα f (patrída, “homeland”)

• ενδοχώρα f (endochóra, “hinterland”)
• χωράφι n (choráfi, “field”)
• χωριό n (chorió, “village”)
• χώρος m (chóros, “environment”)
• χωρώ (choró, “to hold”)

χώρα • (chóra)

1. 2nd person singular imperfective imperative formal of χωρώ (choró).
2. 2nd person singular perfective imperative formal of χωρώ (choró).