hera

Apparently a feminization of hero, replacing -o (suffix implying masculinity) with -a (“suffix implying femininity”). Sometimes capitalized as if assumed to be related to Hera.

hera (plural heras)

1. (uncommon) A female hero; a heroine, especially in lesbian or feminist circles.

   Synonym: shero

   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:hera.

• Ahre, Hare, RHAe, Rahe, Rhea, hare, hear, rhea

hera

1. definite nominative singular of herë

From Proto-Finnic *hëra.

• IPA^(key): /ˈherɑ/, [ˈhe̞rɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -erɑ
• Syllabification^(key): he‧ra
• Hyphenation^(key): he‧ra

hera

1. whey
2. blood serum

• (blood serum): verihera, seerumi, veriseerumi

• “hera”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈhɛ.ra]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɛː.ra]

hera f (genitive herae); first declension

1. alternative form of era: mistress of the house
   • 166 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Andria 687–688:

     MȲSĪS: Ōrāre iussit, sī sē ames herā, iam ut ad sēsē veniās: / vidēre ait tē cupere.

     MYSIS: [Glycerium] told me to ask, if you are in love with [my] mistress, that you should come to her now: she says she longs to see you.

First-declension noun.

• “hera”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “hera”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "hera", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• hera in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “hera”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[2]
• “hera”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “hera”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

From Proto-West Germanic *hārijā, from Proto-Germanic *hērijǭ.

*hēra f

1. fur cloak

• “hēra”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

IPA^(key): /ˈxeː.rɑ/, [ˈheː.rɑ]

hēra m

1. follower, servant, one who obeys another
   • late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History

     In þǣre þēode was in þā tīd Sǣberht cyning, Æðelberhtes swustorsunu ⁊ his hēra.

     At that time Seaberht was king of that province; he was the nephew and follower of Athelberht.

Weak:

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “héra”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• IPA^(key): /ˈxeː.rɑ/, [ˈheː.rɑ]

hēra

1. genitive plural of hēr

From Proto-West Germanic *hauʀijan. Cognate with Old English hīeran and Old Saxon hōrian.

• (Late Old Frisian) heera

• IPA^(key): /ˈheːra/, [ˈhɛːra]

hēra

2. (transitive) to hear
4. (transitive) to belong to

• Saterland Frisian: here
• West Frisian: hearre

From Old Saxon hērro, from Old High German hērro, from Proto-West Germanic *hair (“grey-haired”), whence also the doublet of hār (“honourable”).

• hēr

• IPA^(key): /ˈherːa/

hēra m

2. lord

• Saterland Frisian: Here

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, pages 28, 198

From Proto-West Germanic *hēr (“here, hither”).

hera

1. hither

Clipping of heroina.

• IPA^(key): /ˈxɛ.ra/
• Rhymes: -ɛra
• Syllabification: he‧ra
• Homophones: Hera, chera

hera f

1. (slang) heroin

• hera in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• hera in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Old Galician-Portuguese edra, from Latin hedera (“ivy”).

• Hyphenation: he‧ra
• Homophones: era, Hera
• Rhymes: -ɛɾɐ

hera f (plural heras)

1. ivy (plant)

   Synonyms: (Trás-os-Montes) heradeira, (Trás-os-Montes) aradeira

• trepadeira

• hera venenosa