kore
English
WOTD – 31 August 2012
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κόρη (kórē, “girl, maiden”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɔəɹeɪ/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈkoɹeɪ/
Noun
- (art, sculpture) An Ancient Greek statue of a woman, portrayed standing, usually clothed, painted in bright colours and having an elaborate hairstyle.
- 1966, Spyros Meletzēs, Helenē A. Papadakē, Akropolis and Museum, page 42,
- Mus. No 685: Archaic kore of island marble (500-490 B. C.) 4 ft high. Attic work. This kore is not wearing the Ionian smile, but a look of solemn gravity. She does not gather up her robes with the left hand like the other kores, […] .
- 1995, Irene Bald Romano, University of Pennsylvania Museum, The Terracotta Figurines and Related Vessels, page 14,
- Ducat believes that all the kore plastic vessels wearing transverse himatia ending in stepped folds over the abdomen originate in Rhodes (1966: 72).
- 2002, Matthew Dillon, Girls and Women in Classical Greek Religion, page 9,
- Inscribed dedications often took the form of korai (singular: kore): statues, usually life-size or larger of female figures, generally goddesses.
- 1966, Spyros Meletzēs, Helenē A. Papadakē, Akropolis and Museum, page 42,
Coordinate terms
- kouros (statue of a male)
Related terms
Translations
Further reading
Kore (sculpture) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Afrikaans
Albanian
Etymology
From Proto-Albanian *kāsra, from Proto-Indo-European *kars 'to scratch, rub'. Compare Lithuanian kar̃šti (“comb, curry”), Latvian kā̀ršu (“wool comb”), Latin cardus (“thistle”), Middle High German harsten (“become hard, rough”).
Finnish
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κόρη (kórē, “girl, maiden”).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ko‧re
- IPA(key): /ˈko̞re̞/
Declension
Speakers prefer not to inflect this word, and use it only for the nominative singular. If inflection is needed, the term kore-veistos (“kore-sculpture”) is used instead.
Synonyms
Latvian
Declension
Declension of kore (5th declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) | plural (daudzskaitlis) | |
---|---|---|
nominative (nominatīvs) | kore | kores |
accusative (akuzatīvs) | kori | kores |
genitive (ģenitīvs) | kores | koru |
dative (datīvs) | korei | korēm |
instrumental (instrumentālis) | kori | korēm |
locative (lokatīvs) | korē | korēs |
vocative (vokatīvs) | kore | kores |
Maori
Papiamentu
Etymology
From Portuguese correr and Spanish correr and Kabuverdianu kori and Kabuverdianu kore.
Ternate
Noun
kore
- wind (real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or differences in air pressure)
Derived terms
- simote kore
References
- Rika Hayami-Allen (2001). A Descriptive Study of the Language of Ternate, the Northern Moluccas, Indonesia. University of Pittsburgh
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