kore
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κόρη (kórē, “girl, maiden”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɔəɹeɪ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈkoɹeɪ/
Noun
- (art, sculpture) An Ancient Greek statue of a woman, portrayed standing, usually clothed, painted in bright colours and having an elaborate hairstyle.
- 1966, Spyros Meletzēs, Helenē A. Papadakē, Akropolis and Museum[1], page 42:
- Mus. No 685: Archaic kore of island marble (500-490 B. C.) 4 ft high. Attic work. This kore is not wearing the Ionian smile, but a look of solemn gravity. She does not gather up her robes with the left hand like the other kores, […] .
- 1995, Irene Bald Romano, University of Pennsylvania Museum, The Terracotta Figurines and Related Vessels[2], page 14:
- Ducat believes that all the kore plastic vessels wearing transverse himatia ending in stepped folds over the abdomen originate in Rhodes (1966: 72).
- 2002, Matthew Dillon, Girls and Women in Classical Greek Religion[3], page 9:
- Inscribed dedications often took the form of korai (singular: kore): statues, usually life-size or larger of female figures, generally goddesses.
Coordinate terms
- kouros (statue of a male)
Related terms
Translations
Further reading
- Kore (sculpture) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
Afrikaans
Noun
kore
- plural of koor
Ainu
Verb
kore
- (ditransitive) to give
Conjugation
case | objective | |||||||||
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person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | ||||||
number | singular | plural | singular | plural | singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
subjective | 1st | singular | eci= | eci= | k(u)= | k(u)= | ku=i= | ku=i= | ||
plural | eci= | eci= | c(i)= | c(i)= | a=i= | a=i= | ||||
2nd | singular | en= | un= | e= | e= | e=i= | e=i= | |||
plural | eci=en= | eci=un= | eci= | eci= | eci=i= | eci=i= | ||||
3rd | singular | en= | un= | e= | eci= | i= | i= | |||
plural | en= | un= | e= | eci= | i= | i= | ||||
4th | singular | a=en= | a=un= | a=e= | a=eci= | a= | a= | a=i= | a=i= | |
plural | a=en= | a=un= | a=e= | a=eci= | a= | a= | a=i= | a=i= |
†1st-person plurals are exclusive. Inclusive 1st-person plurals are denoted by 4th-person.
†4th-person: indefinite person, 1st-person inclusive plural, logophorical person, 2nd-person honorific, etc.
See Ainu grammar.
Albanian
Alternative forms
- korë, korie
Etymology 1
From Proto-Albanian *kāsra, from Proto-Indo-European *kars (“to scratch, rub”). Compare Lithuanian kar̃šti (“comb, curry”), Latvian kā̀ršu (“wool comb”), Latin cardus (“thistle”), Middle High German harsten (“become hard, rough”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkoɾe/
- Rhymes: -oɾe
- Hyphenation: kó‧re
Noun
kore f (plural kore, definite korja, definite plural koret)
- scrub, crust (of baked products, wounds)
- tree bark
- (technical) brain cortex, Earth crust
- scab (crust on a wound)
- Synonym: dregëz
Declension
This entry needs an inflection-table template.
Related terms
Etymology 2
From Latin cichorēum ~ cichorium.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkoɾe/
- Rhymes: -oɾe
- Hyphenation: kó‧re
Noun
kore f (plural kore, definite korea)
Etymology 3
From koris.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /koˈɾe/
- Rhymes: -ɾe
- Hyphenation: ko‧ré
Noun
kore f
Related terms
Etymology 4
Noun
kore f
Etymology 5
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
kore f
Etymology 6
From Ancient Greek κόρις (kóris, “bedbug”) or Greek κοριός (koriós).
Noun
kore m (definite koreu)
References
- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “kore”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 191
Further reading
- FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language][4], 1980
- “kore”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
- Mann, S. E. (1948) “kore”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 209
Esperanto
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkore/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -ore
- Hyphenation: ko‧re
Adverb
kore
- cordially, heartily
- 1999, “Kore Bonvenon / Intro”, in Esperanto, performed by Freundeskreis:
- Estu kore bonvenaj por la dua albumo de Amikaro / Sub la titolo “Esperanto”
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Finnish
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κόρη (kórē, “girl, maiden”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkore/, [ˈko̞re̞]
- Rhymes: -ore
- Syllabification(key): ko‧re
- Hyphenation(key): ko‧re
Noun
kore
- kore (Greek sculpture)
Declension
Speakers prefer not to inflect this word, and use it only for the nominative singular. If inflection is needed, the term kore-veistos (“kore-sculpture”) is used instead.
Synonyms
Anagrams
Hausa
Other scripts | |
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Ajami | کُورٜىٰ |
Pronunciation
Adjective
kōr̃ḕ (feminine kōr̃ìyā, plural kōr̃ā̀yē or kwâr̃r̃ā)
Japanese
Romanization
kore
Kabuverdianu
Etymology
From Portuguese correr.
Verb
kore
Latvian
Noun
kore f (5th declension)
Declension
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | kore | kores |
genitive | kores | koru |
dative | korei | korēm |
accusative | kori | kores |
instrumental | kori | korēm |
locative | korē | korēs |
vocative | kore | kores |
Maori
Etymology
Compare with Rarotongan kore and Tahitian ʻore (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Adjective
kore
Usage notes
When compounded with nouns, it is always attached to the end of words.
Numeral
kore
Derived terms
- iwikore
- kahakore
- korenga
- waikore
- whakakore
Further reading
- Williams, Herbert William (1917) “kore”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, pages 164-5
- “kore” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
kore (present tense korar, past tense kora, past participle kora, passive infinitive korast, present participle korande, imperative kore/kor)
- to choir
Papiamentu
Etymology
From Portuguese correr and Spanish correr and Kabuverdianu kori and Kabuverdianu kore.
Verb
kore
Serbo-Croatian
Verb
kore (Cyrillic spelling коре)
- third-person plural present indicative of koriti
Ternate
Noun
kore
- wind (movement of air)
Derived terms
- simote kore
References
- Rika Hayami-Allen (2001). A Descriptive Study of the Language of Ternate, the Northern Moluccas, Indonesia. University of Pittsburgh
Yilan Creole
Etymology
From Japanese これ (kore, “this”).
Pronoun
kore
- this (person or object)
Coordinate terms
- kore, are, dore
- koci, aci, doko
- kono, ano, dono
- konna no, anna no, donna no
- konnasite, annasite, donnasite
References
- Chien Yuehchen (2019) “日本語を上層とする 宜蘭クレオールの指示詞”, in 社会言語科学 [The Japanese Journal of Language in Society][5], volume 21, number 2, pages 50-65