ὥρα
Appearance
Ancient Greek
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *yóh₁r̥ (“year, season”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ὥρᾱ • (hṓrā) f (genitive ὥρᾱς); first declension
- any defined period of time
- season
- (in the plural) climate
- year
- time of day
- hour
- some specific time: right time, time for something
- time of life: youth
Inflection
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Greek: ώρα (óra)
- Pontic Greek: ώρα (óra)
- → Laz: ორა (ora)
- Tsakonian: ούρα (oúra)
- → Latin: hōra (see there for further descendants)
- → Sanskrit: होरा (horā) (see there for further descendants)
References
[edit]- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ὥρα”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1681-2
Further reading
[edit]- “ὥρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὥρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ὥρα 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
- “ὥρα”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G5610 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
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