agora
EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀγορά (agorá).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
agora (plural agorae or agoras)
- A place for gathering.
- 2011 September 27, Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone, →ISBN:
- The custom was to dance its length, moving from partner to masked partner all the way to the agora, the city’s gathering place.
- A marketplace, especially in Classical Greece.
Related termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
a place for gathering
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a marketplace
Etymology 2Edit
From Hebrew אֲגוֹרָה (agorá), from the root א־ג־ר (ʾ-g-r, “forming words relating to hoarding and storing”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
agora (plural agorot or agoroth)
AragoneseEdit
EtymologyEdit
AdverbEdit
agora
AsturianEdit
EtymologyEdit
AdverbEdit
agora
FinnishEdit
NounEdit
agora
- agora (marketplace in Classical Greece)
DeclensionEdit
| Inflection of agora (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | agora | agorat | |
| genitive | agoran | agoroiden agoroitten | |
| partitive | agoraa | agoroita | |
| illative | agoraan | agoroihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | agora | agorat | |
| accusative | nom. | agora | agorat |
| gen. | agoran | ||
| genitive | agoran | agoroiden agoroitten agorainrare | |
| partitive | agoraa | agoroita | |
| inessive | agorassa | agoroissa | |
| elative | agorasta | agoroista | |
| illative | agoraan | agoroihin | |
| adessive | agoralla | agoroilla | |
| ablative | agoralta | agoroilta | |
| allative | agoralle | agoroille | |
| essive | agorana | agoroina | |
| translative | agoraksi | agoroiksi | |
| instructive | — | agoroin | |
| abessive | agoratta | agoroitta | |
| comitative | — | agoroineen | |
| Possessive forms of agora (type kulkija) | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | singular | plural |
| 1st person | agorani | agoramme |
| 2nd person | agorasi | agoranne |
| 3rd person | agoransa | |
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀγορά (agorá).
PronunciationEdit
Audio (file)
NounEdit
agora f (plural agoras)
Further readingEdit
- “agora” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
GalicianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Galician and Old Portuguese agora, from Latin hac hora.
PronunciationEdit
AdverbEdit
agora
- now (at this time)
- now (used to introduce a point, a qualification of what has previously been said, a remonstration or a rebuke)
- É bo. Agora, non é listo ― He's good. Now, he's not clever
Further readingEdit
- “agora” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
ReferencesEdit
- “agora” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
- “agora” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
- “agora” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
- “agora” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “agora” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
LadinoEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
AdverbEdit
agora (Latin spelling)
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
From the Ancient Greek ᾰ̓γορᾱ́ (agorā́).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
agora f (genitive agorae); first declension
DeclensionEdit
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | agora | agorae |
| Genitive | agorae | agorārum |
| Dative | agorae | agorīs |
| Accusative | agoram | agorās |
| Ablative | agorā | agorīs |
| Vocative | agora | agorae |
Related termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- agora in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia[1]
- agora in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- agora in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- agora in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
MacaneseEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Portuguese agora
AdverbEdit
agora
- now
- Agora sezâ alta.
- The sun is high now.
ConjunctionEdit
agora
- since
- Agora ele sai, sua mai sâm mais feliçata.
- Since he left, his mom has been happier.
- on the other hand; while
- Io sâm remana, agora io irmam sâm adap.
- I am rich, while my brother’s hard for cash.
MirandeseEdit
EtymologyEdit
AdverbEdit
agora
Old PortugueseEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdverbEdit
agora
- now
- 13th century, Cancioneiro da Ajuda, Estêvão Travanca, A 185: Pois m'en'tal coita ten Amor (facsimile)
- dizede mi agora por deus
- For God's sake, tell me now
- 13th century, Cancioneiro da Ajuda, Estêvão Travanca, A 185: Pois m'en'tal coita ten Amor (facsimile)
SynonymsEdit
DescendantsEdit
PolishEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
agora f
- agora (marketplace in Classical Greece)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of agora
Further readingEdit
- agora in Polish dictionaries at PWN
PortugueseEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Portuguese agora, from Latin hāc hōrā.
PronunciationEdit
- Hyphenation: a‧go‧ra
AdverbEdit
agora (not comparable)
- now; right now (at the present time)
- Agora vou embora.
- Now I will leave.
- Querem nos matar agora.
- They want to kill us right now.
- now; any more (differently from the past)
- 2003, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter e a Ordem da Fênix [Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix] (Harry Potter; 5), Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, →ISBN, page 434:
- O coração de Harry batia acelerado agora.
- Harry's heart was beating quickly now.
- Agora eu não gosto de ler.
- Now I don’t like reading.
- just now (very recently)
- Ele falou isso agora.
- He said that just now.
- this (in the current or next [date])
- Eu volto para casa sexta-feira agora.
- I’m going back home this Friday.
SynonymsEdit
- (right now): já, agora mesmo
- (differently from the past): mais
- (just now): agorinha, agora há pouco
- (in the current or next date): neste
Derived termsEdit
ConjunctionEdit
agora
- on the other hand; whereas; while (introduces an example that is the opposite of the previous example)
- Eu leio um livro todo mês, agora meus amigos não leem nem um por ano.
- I read one book every month; my friends, on the other hand, don’t even read one per year.
- (familiar, introducing various clauses) sometimes … sometimes
- Agora comemos carne, agora comemos salada.
- Sometimes we eat meat, sometimes we eat salad.
SynonymsEdit
- (on the other hand): já, por outro lado, enquanto
- (sometimes … sometimes): às vezes … às vezes/outras vezes, ora … ora
DescendantsEdit
RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
agora f (uncountable)
DeclensionEdit
declension of agora (singular only)
SpanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdverbEdit
agora
- Obsolete form of ahora.
Further readingEdit
- “agora” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
TurkishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀγορά (agorá).
NounEdit
agora (definite accusative agorayı, plural agoralar)
- agora (marketplace in Classical Greece)
DeclensionEdit
ReferencesEdit
- agora in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu
WelshEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /aˈɡɔra/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /aˈɡoːra/, /aˈɡɔra/
VerbEdit
agora
- (literary) third-person singular present indicative/future of agor
- (colloquial) second-person singular imperative of agor
MutationEdit
| Welsh mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| radical | soft | nasal | h-prothesis |
| agora | unchanged | unchanged | hagora |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||