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μόρᾱ

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μόρᾱ μόρᾱς

Structure: μορ (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: mei/romai

Sense

  1. mora (a division of the Spartan army, varying in strength, at first six in number)
  2. 362–354 BC, Xenophon, Ἑλληνικά in Xenophontis Opera Omnia, volume I (1900), Ἑλληνικῶν Β, chapter iv, § 31:

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ὅτι πάντων ἁπλῶσ οὕτω καλούντων αὐτὰ Ἀλεξανδρεῖσ μόνοι μόρα ὀνομάζουσι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 361)
  • μόρα δὲ τὰ συκάμινα καὶ παρ’ Αἰσχύλῳ ἐν Φρυξὶν ἐπὶ τοῦ Ἕκτοροσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 36 1:2)
  • Παρθένιοσ δὲ ἅβρυνά φησι συκάμινα, ἃ καλοῦσιν ἔνιοι μόρα· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 37 1:1)
  • Σαλαμίνιοι δὲ τὰ αὐτὰ ταῦτα βάτια Δημήτριοσ δὲ ὁ Ἰξίων τὰ αὐτὰ συκάμινα καὶ μόρα οἱο͂ν αἱμόροα καὶ σύκων ἀμείνω. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 37 1:2)
  • "τὰ δὲ συκάμινα, ἃ καὶ μόρα λέγεται, εὔχυλα μέν ἐστιν, ὀλιγότροφα δὲ καὶ εὐστόμαχα καὶ εὐέκκριτα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 37 1:4)

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