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ὥρᾱ

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὥρᾱ ὥρας

Structure: ὡρ (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. any defined period of time
  2. season
  3. (in plural): climate
  4. year
  5. time of day
  6. hour
  7. some specific time: right time, time for something
  8. time of life: youth

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὥρᾱ ώ̔ρᾱ ῶ̔ραι
Genitive ώ̔ρᾱς ώ̔ραιν ὡρῶν
Dative ώ̔ρᾱͅ ώ̔ραιν ώ̔ραις
Accusative ώ̔ρᾱν ώ̔ρᾱ ώ̔ρᾱς
Vocative ώ̔ρᾱ ώ̔ρᾱ ῶ̔ραι

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

  • ΔΙΑΤΙ δὲ Κύριον ἔλαθον ὧραι, (Septuagint, Liber Iob 24:1)
  • καὶ σὺ δεῦρο καὶ ἀναπαύου. ἔτι γὰρ ἡμέραι καὶ ὧραι εἰσ ἀναπλήρωσιν συντελείασ, καὶ ἀναστήσῃ εἰσ τὸν κλῆρόν σου, εἰσ συντέλειαν ἡμερῶν. ̀ρ̀ν̀ρ̀ν————— ̀ρ̀ν̀ρ̀ν ΒΗΛ ΚΑΙ ΔΡΑΚΩΝ · ΚΑΙ ὁ βασιλεὺσ Ἀστυάγησ προσετέθη πρὸσ τοὺσ πατέρασ αὐτοῦ, καὶ παρέλαβε Κῦροσ ὁ Πέρσησ τὴν βασιλείαν αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Prophetia Danielis 12:13)
  • εἰσιόντων δὲ πρῶτα μὲν οἰκοῦσιν αἱ Ὧραι· (Lucian, De sacrificiis, (no name) 8:3)
  • ἀσφαλέσταται γὰρ αἱ ὡρ͂αι αὗται ταῖσ κυσίν. (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 14 1:2)
  • ἀμφὶ δὲ τήν γε Ὧραι καλλίκομοι στέφον ἄνθεσιν εἰαρινοῖσιν· (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 11:6)

Synonyms

  1. any defined period of time

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