χώρα

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Ancient GreekEdit

Alternative formsEdit

• χώρη ‎(khṓrē) (Ionic)

EtymologyEdit

Uncertain. No apparent cognates outside of Greek.

PronunciationEdit

 

• IPA: /kʰɔ᷄ː.raː/ → /ˈxo.ra/ → /ˈxo.ra/

• 5th BC Attic: IPA: /kʰɔ᷄ː.raː/
• 1st BC Egyptian: IPA: /ˈkʰo.ra/
• 4th AD Koine: IPA: /ˈxo.ra/
• 10th AD Byzantine: IPA: /ˈxo.ra/
• 15th AD Constantinopolitan: IPA: /ˈxo.ra/

NounEdit

χώρᾱ • ‎(khṓrā) f ‎(genitive χώρας); 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 χώρᾱ, χώρᾱς

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	χώρᾱ	χώρᾱ	χῶραι
Genitive	χώρᾱς	χώραιν	χωρῶν
Dative	χώρᾳ	χώραιν	χώραις
Accusative	χώρᾱν	χώρᾱ	χώρᾱς
Vocative	χώρᾱ	χώρᾱ	χῶραι
Dialectal forms:
Notes:

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.
  • country idem, page 178.
  • domain idem, page 246.
  • dominion idem, page 247.
  • estate idem, page 283.
  • Ilian idem, page 1013.
  • land idem, page 475.
  • landscape idem, page 475.
  • Picenum idem, page 1022.
  • 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)
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”)
• χωριό n ‎(chorió, “village”)
• χώρος m ‎(chóros, “environment”)
• χωρώ ‎(choró, “to hold”)

See alsoEdit

• 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)