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ὀπώρᾱ

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀπώρᾱ ὀπώρας

Structure: ὀπωρ (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. the part of the year between the rising of Sirius and of Arcturus, the end of summer;
  2. autumn
  3. fruit
  4. (figuratively) summer-bloom,

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

  • ὦ χαῖρ’ Ὀπώρα, καὶ σὺ δ’ ὦ Θεωρία. (Aristophanes, Peace, Choral, strophe 3 1:4)
  • "εἶτα νύκτωρ καὶ καθ’ ἡσυχίαν γλυκεῖ’ ὀπώρα φύλακοσ ἐκλελοιπότοσ. (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 521)
  • χαλεπὸν οὖν ἐστιν, ἄνδρεσ φίλοι, τὸ μεθύειν καὶ καλῶσ πρὸσ τοὺσ οὕτωσ λάπτοντασ τὸν οἶνον ὁ αὐτὸσ Ἄλεξισ ἐν Ὀπώρᾳ ἑταίρασ δ’ ὄνομα τὸ δρᾶμα ἔχει φησίν οἶνον πολὺν οὐ κεκραμένον σὺ πίνεισ μεστὸσ ὢν κοὐκ ἐξεμεῖσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 61 3:4)
  • καὶ ἄλλα δὲ πολλά, ὦναιδέσ, δράματα ἀπὸ ἑταιρῶν ἔσχε τὰσ ἐπιγραφάσ, Θάλαττα Διοκλέουσ, Φερεκράτουσ Κοριαννώ, Εὐνίκου ἢ Φιλυλλίου Ἄντεια, Μενάνδρου δὲ Θαὶσ καὶ Φάνιον, Ἀλέξιδοσ Ὀπώρα, Εὐβούλου Κλεψύδρα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 21 4:4)
  • τέρειν’ ὀπώρα δ’ εὐφύλακτοσ οὐδαμῶσ· (Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, episode, trochees8)

Synonyms

  1. autumn

  2. fruit

  3. summer-bloom

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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