Ancient Greek edit

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Etymology edit

From Proto-Hellenic *ároura, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂r̥h₃-w-rh₂ (cultivated land); cognate with Sanskrit उर्वरा (urvárā). The sense ‘arura’ is a semantic loan from Egyptian sṯꜣt (arura).

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Noun edit

ἄρουρᾰ (árouraf (genitive ἀρούρᾱς); first declension

  1. cultivated land, a cultivated field
  2. ground, earth
  3. arura
    • Rosetta Stone :
      ἀπἔλυσεν δέ τά ἱερά καί τῆς λογιζομένης τῆς ἀρτάβης τῇ ἀρούρᾳ τῆς ἱερᾶς γῆς
      apélusen dé tá hierá kaí tês logizoménēs tês artábēs têi aroúrāi tês hierâs gês
      he also released the temples of the ardeb-per-arura tax on sacred land

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  • English: arura

Further reading edit

  • ἄρουρα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • ἄρουρα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • ἄρουρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.