Ancient Greek
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- 𐠀𐠦𐠄𐠣𐠂 (a-ro-u-ra-i) — Arcadocypriot
Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Hellenic *ároura, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂r̥h₃-w-rh₂ (“cultivated land”); cognate with Sanskrit उर्वरा (urvárā). The sense ‘arura’ is a semantic loan from Egyptian sṯꜣt (“arura”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /á.ruː.ra/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈa.ru.ra/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈa.ru.ra/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈa.ru.ra/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈa.ru.ra/
Noun
[edit]ἄρουρᾰ • (ároura) f (genitive ἀρούρᾱς); first declension
- cultivated land, a cultivated field
- ground, earth
- arura
- Rosetta Stone :
- ἀπἔλυσεν δέ τά ἱερά καί τῆς λογιζομένης τῆς ἀρτάβης τῇ ἀρούρᾳ τῆς ἱερᾶς γῆς
- apélusen dé tá hierá kaí tês logizoménēs tês artábēs têi aroúrāi tês hierâs gês
- he also released the temples of the ardeb-per-arura tax on sacred land
- ἀπἔλυσεν δέ τά ἱερά καί τῆς λογιζομένης τῆς ἀρτάβης τῇ ἀρούρᾳ τῆς ἱερᾶς γῆς
Declension
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ἄρουρᾰ hē ároura |
τὼ ἀρούρᾱ tṑ aroúrā |
αἱ ἄρουραι hai árourai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ἀρούρᾱς tês aroúrās |
τοῖν ἀρούραιν toîn aroúrain |
τῶν ἀρουρῶν tôn arourôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ἀρούρᾳ têi aroúrāi |
τοῖν ἀρούραιν toîn aroúrain |
ταῖς ἀρούραις taîs aroúrais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ἄρουρᾰν tḕn árouran |
τὼ ἀρούρᾱ tṑ aroúrā |
τᾱ̀ς ἀρούρᾱς tā̀s aroúrās | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἄρουρᾰ ároura |
ἀρούρᾱ aroúrā |
ἄρουραι árourai | ||||||||||
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Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἄρουρᾰ ároura |
ἀρούρᾱ aroúrā |
ἄρουραι árourai | ||||||||||
Genitive | ἀρούρης aroúrēs |
ἀρούραιν / ἀρούραιῐν / ἀρούρῃῐν aroúrai(i)n / aroúrēiin |
ἀρουρᾱ́ων / ἀρουρέ͜ων / ἀρουρῶν arourā́ōn / arouré͜ōn / arourôn | ||||||||||
Dative | ἀρούρῃ aroúrēi |
ἀρούραιν / ἀρούραιῐν / ἀρούρῃῐν aroúrai(i)n / aroúrēiin |
ἀρούρῃσῐ / ἀρούρῃσῐν / ἀρούρῃς / ἀρούραις aroúrēisi(n) / aroúrēis / aroúrais | ||||||||||
Accusative | ἄρουρᾰν árouran |
ἀρούρᾱ aroúrā |
ἀρούρᾱς aroúrās | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἄρουρᾰ ároura |
ἀρούρᾱ aroúrā |
ἄρουραι árourai | ||||||||||
Notes: |
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Related terms
[edit]- ἀρωραῖος (arōraîos) (hyper-Doricism)
Descendants
[edit]- → English: arura
Further reading
[edit]- “ἄρουρα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἄρουρα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “ἄρουρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
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