ὤχρα
Ancient Greek edit
Etymology edit
From the same root as ὠχρός (ōkhrós, “pale yellow”).
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ɔ̌ː.kʰraː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈo.kʰra/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈo.xra/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈo.xra/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈo.xra/
Noun edit
ὤχρᾱ • (ṓkhrā) f (genitive ὤχρᾱς); first declension
Declension edit
Descendants edit
- → Latin: ōchra
- → Russian: о́хра (óxra)
- → Yakut: охра (oqra)
- → Ukrainian: во́хра (vóxra), о́хра (óxra)
Further reading edit
- ὤχρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ὤχρα - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.
- “ὤχρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press