vora

Inherited from Latin ōra. Compare Spanish orilla.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈbɔ.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈvɔ.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈvɔ.ɾa]

vora f (plural vores)

1. edge
2. bank, shore
3. hem

• vorà
• voral
• vorer
• vorera

vora

1. near (close to, in proximity to)

   Synonym: prop de

   a la vora del foc ― next to the fire

vora

1. nearly, almost
   • 2019 October 26, Josep Maria Ganyet, “I amb l’emoji, la revolta”, in La Vanguardia‎^[1]:

     Una cerca ràpida per “Tsunami Democràtic” (cometes incloses) torna vora 1,5 milions de resultats.

     A quick search for "Democratic Tsunami" (including quotation marks) returns nearly 1.5 million results.

• “vora”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “vora”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “vora” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “vora” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

vora

1. indefinite genitive plural of vor

Derived from Latin vorō (“to devour, swallow up”).

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• IPA^(key): /ˈvɔ.ra/
• Rhymes: -ɔra
• Hyphenation: vò‧ra

vora f (plural vore)

1. (regional, Apulia) a sinkhole formed by the erosion of water or by the collapse of a cave's vault

• voragine
• voraginoso
• vorago

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvo.ra/
• Rhymes: -ora
• Hyphenation: vó‧ra

vora

1. inflection of vorare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• Varo, avrò, ovra, varo, varò

vorā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of vorō

• "vora", 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)

vora

1. (Campidanese) edge