ὤχρα

See also: ωχρά, ώχρα, ὠχρά, and ὠχρᾷ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From the same root as ὠχρός (ōkhrós, “pale yellow”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ɔ̌ː.kʰraː/ → /ˈo.xra/ → /ˈo.xra/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ɔ̌ː.kʰraː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈo.kʰra/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.xra/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.xra/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈo.xra/

Noun

ὤχρᾱ • (ṓkhrā) f (genitive ὤχρᾱς); first declension

1. yellow ochre

Declension

First declension of ἡ ὤχρᾱ; τῆς ὤχρᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ ὤχρᾱ hē ṓkhrā
Genitive	τῆς ὤχρᾱς tês ṓkhrās
Dative	τῇ ὤχρᾳ têi ṓkhrāi
Accusative	τὴν ὤχρᾱν tḕn ṓkhrān
Vocative	ὤχρᾱ ṓkhrā
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: ōchra
  • → Dutch: oker
  • → English: ochre
    • → Irish: ócar
    • → Welsh: ocr
  • → Finnish: okra
  • Italian: ocra
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: oker
  • → Norwegian Nynorsk: oker
  • Portuguese: ocra
  • → Polish: ochra
  • → Serbo-Croatian: òker
  • → Swedish: ockra
  • ⇒ Latin: ōchrāceus
• → Russian: о́хра (óxra)
  • → Yakut: охра (oqra)
• → Ukrainian: во́хра (vóxra), о́хра (óxra)

Further reading

• ὤχρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “ὤχρα”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “ὤχρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press