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cora

See also: Cora, córa, córą, and čora

Catalan edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

cora f (plural cores)

  1. kore

Galician edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Unknown. Perhaps from cor,[1] but this can't explain the open tonic vowel.

Same root as Portuguese 'cora': i.e. to brown or blush bread. To add colour to the loaf.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

cora f (plural coras)

  1. small fire lit before the oven for maintaining it hot or to brown the bread

References edit

  1. ^ Rivas Quintas, Eligio (2015). Dicionario etimolóxico da lingua galega. Santiago de Compostela: Tórculo. →ISBN, s.v. cor3.

Irish edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Middle Irish cora (“stone fence; weir”).

Noun edit

cora f (genitive singular cora, nominative plural coraí)

  1. weir
Declension edit
Declension of cora

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cora coraí
Vocative a chora a choraí
Genitive cora coraí
Dative cora coraí

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an chora na coraí
Genitive na cora na gcoraí
Dative leis an gcora

don chora

leis na coraí

Alternative inflected forms:

Derived terms edit

Etymology 2 edit

Noun edit

cora

  1. plural of cor (“twist, (fishing) cast, (dancing) reel”)

Mutation edit

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
cora chora gcora
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading edit

Latin edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κόρη (kórē).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

cora f (genitive corae); first declension

  1. pupil (of the eye)

Declension edit

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cora corae
Genitive corae corārum
Dative corae corīs
Accusative coram corās
Ablative corā corīs
Vocative cora corae

Lower Sorbian edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Slavic *vьčera. Cognate with Upper Sorbian wčera, Polish wczoraj, Czech včera, Russian вчера́ (včerá), Old Church Slavonic вьчєра (vĭčera).

Pronunciation edit

Adverb edit

cora

  1. yesterday

Further reading edit

  • Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “cora”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
  • Starosta, Manfred (1999) “cora”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

Pali edit

Alternative forms edit

Alternative forms

Etymology edit

Inherited from Sanskrit चौर (caura), चोर (cora).

Noun edit

cora m

  1. thief, robber, bandit

References edit

Portuguese edit

Pronunciation edit

  • Rhymes: -ɔɾɐ
  • Hyphenation: co‧ra

Verb edit

cora

  1. inflection of corar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

San Juan Colorado Mixtec edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Spanish corral.

Noun edit

corá

  1. corral

References edit

  • Stark Campbell, Sara, et al. (1986) Diccionario mixteco de San Juan Colorado (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 29)‎[1] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 9

Spanish edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈkoɾa/ [ˈko.ɾa]
  • Rhymes: -oɾa
  • Syllabification: co‧ra

Etymology 1 edit

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun edit

cora f (plural coras)

  1. (historical) a territorial subdivision in Al-Andalus

Etymology 2 edit

From American English quarter.

Noun edit

cora f (plural coras)

  1. (El Salvador) a US currency coin worth 25 cents, a quarter
    Synonyms: (New Mexico) cuara, (Panama) cuarto

Further reading edit

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