ὤρα

See also: ώρα, ὥρα, and Ὥρα

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ὤρη (ṓrē) — Ionic

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *worā, from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to note, sense”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ɔ̌ː.raː/ → /ˈo.ra/ → /ˈo.ra/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ɔ̌ː.raː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ra/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ra/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ra/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ra/

Noun

ὤρᾱ • (ṓrā) f (genitive ὤρᾱς); first declension

1. care, concern
   • 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 385–386:

     Ἤδη γὰρ ἔσχες ἐλπίδ’ ὡς ἐμοῦ θεούς / ὤραν τιν’ ἔξειν, (...)

     Ḗdē gàr éskhes elpíd’ hōs emoû theoús / ṓran tin’ éxein, (...)

     Have you even now got hope that for me the gods / will have any concern, (...)

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ὤρᾱ; τῆς ὤρᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ὤρᾱ hē ṓrā	τὼ ὤρᾱ tṑ ṓrā	αἱ ὦραι hai ôrai
Genitive	τῆς ὤρᾱς tês ṓrās	τοῖν ὤραιν toîn ṓrain	τῶν ὠρῶν tôn ōrôn
Dative	τῇ ὤρᾳ têi ṓrāi	τοῖν ὤραιν toîn ṓrain	ταῖς ὤραις taîs ṓrais
Accusative	τὴν ὤρᾱν tḕn ṓrān	τὼ ὤρᾱ tṑ ṓrā	τᾱ̀ς ὤρᾱς tā̀s ṓrās
Vocative	ὤρᾱ ṓrā	ὤρᾱ ṓrā	ὦραι ôrai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Ὠρομέδων (Ōromédōn)

Further reading

• “ὤρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὤρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ὤρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • attention idem, page 51.
  • care idem, page 113.
  • heed idem, page 394.
• “ὤρα”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011