ὀπώρα
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Seems to be a contraction of an original *ὀποσάρα (*oposára), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi (“on, at”) (whence ἐπῐ́ (epí)) + *(s)h₁ósr̥, a variant of *(s)h₁ésō (“harvest season”), from *(s)h₁es- (“crop, harvest”); the exact formation *(s)h₁ósr̥ is found also in Old Armenian ար-ա-ց (ar-a-cʻ). Other cognates include Russian о́сень (ósenʹ), Gothic 𐌰𐍃𐌰𐌽𐍃 (asans), and Old English earnian (English earn).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /o.pɔ̌ː.raː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /oˈpo.ra/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /oˈpo.ra/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /oˈpo.ra/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /oˈpo.ra/
Noun
[edit]ὀπώρᾱ • (opṓrā) f (genitive ὀπώρᾱς); first declension
- the part of the year between the rising of Sirius and of Arcturus (i. e. the end of July, all August and part of September), the end of summer; later it was used for autumn
- fruit itself (extended from its use for the fruit-time)
- (figuratively) summer-bloom; i.e. the bloom of youth
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ὀπώρᾱ hē opṓrā |
τὼ ὀπώρᾱ tṑ opṓrā |
αἱ ὀπῶραι hai opôrai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ὀπώρᾱς tês opṓrās |
τοῖν ὀπώραιν toîn opṓrain |
τῶν ὀπωρῶν tôn opōrôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ὀπώρᾳ têi opṓrāi |
τοῖν ὀπώραιν toîn opṓrain |
ταῖς ὀπώραις taîs opṓrais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ὀπώρᾱν tḕn opṓrān |
τὼ ὀπώρᾱ tṑ opṓrā |
τᾱ̀ς ὀπώρᾱς tā̀s opṓrās | ||||||||||
Vocative | ὀπώρᾱ opṓrā |
ὀπώρᾱ opṓrā |
ὀπῶραι opôrai | ||||||||||
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References
[edit]- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ὀπώρα”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1094-5
Further reading
[edit]- “ὀπώρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὀπώρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ὀπώρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “ὀπώρα”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G3703 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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