χώρα

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Ancient GreekEdit

Alternative formsEdit

• χώρη (khṓrē) – Ionic

EtymologyEdit

Unknown. No apparent cognates outside of Greek.

PronunciationEdit

 

• IPA^(key): /kʰɔ̌ː.raː/ → /ˈxo.ra/ → /ˈxo.ra/

• (5^th BC Attic) IPA^(key): /kʰɔ̌ː.raː/
• (1^st BC Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkʰo.ra/
• (4^th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈxo.ra/
• (10^th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈxo.ra/
• (15^th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈxo.ra/

NounEdit

χώρᾱ • (khṓrā) f (genitive χώρᾱς); first declension

1. location, place, spot (see Latin locus)
2. the proper place
3. one's place in life
4. piece of land: tract, land, field
5. country (opposite town), countryside
6. country, nation

InflectionEdit

First declension of ἡ χώρᾱ; τῆς χώρᾱς

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ χώρᾱ	τὼ χώρᾱ	αἱ χῶραι
Genitive	τῆς χώρᾱς	τοῖν χώραιν	τῶν χωρῶν
Dative	τῇ χώρᾳ	τοῖν χώραιν	ταῖς χώραις
Accusative	τὴν χώρᾱν	τὼ χώρᾱ	τᾱ̀ς χώρᾱς
Vocative	χώρᾱ	χώρᾱ	χῶραι
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

DescendantsEdit

• → Coptic: ⲭⲱⲣⲁ (khōra)
• Greek: χώρα (chóra)

ReferencesEdit

• χώρα in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• χώρα in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «χώρα» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• χώρα in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G5561”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • Atarneus idem, page 1003.
  • Ilian idem, page 1013.
  • Picenum idem, page 1022.
  • country idem, page 178.
  • domain idem, page 246.
  • dominion idem, page 247.
  • estate idem, page 283.
  • land idem, page 475.
  • landscape idem, page 475.
  • place idem, page 616.
  • position idem, page 628.
  • post idem, page 629.
  • province idem, page 654.
  • quarter idem, page 663.
  • region idem, page 687.
  • room idem, page 721.
  • scenery idem, page 738.
  • situation idem, page 780.
  • space idem, page 797.
  • spot idem, page 804.
  • territory idem, page 863.
  • tract idem, page 885.
  • vacancy idem, page 941.
  • zone idem, page 997.

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GreekEdit

NounEdit

χώρα • (chóra) f (plural χώρες)

1. (geography) country, land (the state, its people, a region of a country)

   αδέσμευτες χώρες ― adésmeftes chóres ― non-aligned countries

2. (geography) main town or village

DeclensionEdit

declension of χώρα

	singular	plural
nominative	χώρα •	χώρες •
genitive	χώρας •	χωρών •
accusative	χώρα •	χώρες •
vocative	χώρα •	χώρες •

Related termsEdit

• ενδοχώρα f (endochóra, “hinterland”)
• χωράφι n (choráfi, “field”)
• χωριό n (chorió, “village”)
• χώρος m (chóros, “environment”)
• χωρώ (choró, “to hold”)

Coordinate termsEdit

• πατρίδα f (patrída, “homeland”)

VerbEdit

χώρα • (chóra)

1. second-person singular imperfective imperative of χωρώ (choró)
2. second-person singular perfective imperative of χωρώ (choró)