μοῖρα
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Hellenic *móřřā, o-grade of the root of μείρομαι (meíromai, “to receive as one's portion”) + -ιᾰ (-ia, feminine suffix).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /môi̯.ra/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈmy.ra/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmy.ra/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmy.ra/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈmi.ra/
Noun
[edit]μοῖρᾰ • (moîra) f (genitive μοίρᾱς); first declension
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ μοῖρᾰ hē moîra |
τὼ μοίρᾱ tṑ moírā |
αἱ μοῖραι hai moîrai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς μοίρᾱς tês moírās |
τοῖν μοίραιν toîn moírain |
τῶν μοιρῶν tôn moirôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ μοίρᾳ têi moírāi |
τοῖν μοίραιν toîn moírain |
ταῖς μοίραις taîs moírais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν μοῖρᾰν tḕn moîran |
τὼ μοίρᾱ tṑ moírā |
τᾱ̀ς μοίρᾱς tā̀s moírās | ||||||||||
Vocative | μοῖρᾰ moîra |
μοίρᾱ moírā |
μοῖραι moîrai | ||||||||||
Notes: |
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Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ μοῖρᾰ hē moîra |
τὼ μοίρᾱ tṑ moírā |
αἱ μοῖραι hai moîrai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς μοίρης tês moírēs |
τοῖν μοίραιν toîn moírain |
τῶν μοιρέων / μοιρῶν tôn moiréōn / moirôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ μοίρῃ têi moírēi |
τοῖν μοίραιν toîn moírain |
τῇσῐ / τῇσῐν μοίρῃσῐ / μοίρῃσῐν têisi(n) moírēisi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν μοῖρᾰν tḕn moîran |
τὼ μοίρᾱ tṑ moírā |
τᾱ̀ς μοίρᾱς tā̀s moírās | ||||||||||
Vocative | μοῖρᾰ moîra |
μοίρᾱ moírā |
μοῖραι moîrai | ||||||||||
Notes: |
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Derived terms
[edit]- κᾰκόμοιρος (kakómoiros)
- [[μ̊
μοιράω#Ancient_Greek|μ̊ μοιράω]] (m̊
moiráō) - μοιράζω (moirázō)
- Μοιροκλῆς (Moiroklês)
Related terms
[edit]- Μοῖρᾰ (Moîra)
Descendants
[edit]- Greek: μοίρα (moíra)
- → English: moirail
- → English: moirocaust
References
[edit]- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “μοῖρα”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 961
Further reading
[edit]- “μοῖρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μοῖρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “μοῖρα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- μοῖρα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “μοῖρα”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- μοῖρα in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- 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
- μοῖρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “μοῖρα”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
Categories:
- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *(s)mer- (allot)
- Ancient Greek terms inherited from Proto-Hellenic
- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Hellenic
- Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -ια
- Ancient Greek 2-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek properispomenon terms
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns
- Ancient Greek first-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the first declension