βορά
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From βιβρώσκω (bibrṓskō, “to eat”) + -η (-ē).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /bo.rǎː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /boˈra/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /βoˈra/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /voˈra/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /voˈra/
Noun
βορᾱ́ • (borā́) f (genitive βορᾶς); first declension
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ βορᾱ́ hē borā́ |
τὼ βορᾱ́ tṑ borā́ |
αἱ βοραί hai boraí | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς βορᾶς tês borâs |
τοῖν βοραῖν toîn boraîn |
τῶν βορῶν tôn borôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ βορᾷ tēî borāî |
τοῖν βοραῖν toîn boraîn |
ταῖς βοραῖς taîs boraîs | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν βορᾱ́ν tḕn borā́n |
τὼ βορᾱ́ tṑ borā́ |
τᾱ̀ς βορᾱ́ς tā̀s borā́s | ||||||||||
| Vocative | βορᾱ́ borā́ |
βορᾱ́ borā́ |
βοραί boraí | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “βορά”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “βορά”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- βορά 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
- βορά in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- “βορά”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.