ὤρα
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to note, sense”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ɔ̌ː.raː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈo.ra/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈo.ra/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈo.ra/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈo.ra/
Noun
ὤρᾱ • (ṓrā) f (genitive ὤρᾱς); first declension
- care, concern
- 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 385:
- Ἤδη γὰρ ἔσχες ἐλπίδ' ὡς ἐμοῦ θεούς ὤραν τιν' ἔξειν
- Ḗdē gàr éskhes elpíd' hōs emoû theoús ṓran tin' éxein
- Ἤδη γὰρ ἔσχες ἐλπίδ' ὡς ἐμοῦ θεούς ὤραν τιν' ἔξειν
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ὤρᾱ hē ṓrā |
τὼ ὤρᾱ tṑ ṓrā |
αἱ ὦραι hai ôrai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ὤρᾱς tês ṓrās |
τοῖν ὤραιν toîn ṓrain |
τῶν ὠρῶν tôn ōrôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ὤρᾳ têi ṓrāi |
τοῖν ὤραιν toîn ṓrain |
ταῖς ὤραις taîs ṓrais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ὤρᾱν tḕn ṓrān |
τὼ ὤρᾱ tṑ ṓrā |
τᾱ̀ς ὤρᾱς tā̀s ṓrās | ||||||||||
Vocative | ὤρᾱ ṓrā |
ὤρᾱ ṓrā |
ὦραι ôrai | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- ὤρα in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ὤρα in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ὤρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
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