βορά

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From βιβρώσκω (bibrṓskō, “to eat”) +‎ -η (-ē).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /bo.rǎː/ → /βoˈra/ → /voˈra/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /bo.rǎː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /boˈra/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /βoˈra/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /voˈra/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /voˈra/

Noun

βορᾱ́ • (borā́) f (genitive βορᾶς); first declension

1. food, meat, properly of carnivorous beasts

Declension

First declension of ἡ βορᾱ́; τῆς βορᾶς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ βορᾱ́ hē borā́	τὼ βορᾱ́ tṑ borā́	αἱ βοραί hai boraí
Genitive	τῆς βορᾶς tês borâs	τοῖν βοραῖν toîn boraîn	τῶν βορῶν tôn borôn
Dative	τῇ βορᾷ têi borâi	τοῖν βοραῖν toîn boraîn	ταῖς βοραῖς taîs boraîs
Accusative	τὴν βορᾱ́ν tḕn borā́n	τὼ βορᾱ́ tṑ borā́	τᾱ̀ς βορᾱ́ς tā̀s borā́s
Vocative	βορᾱ́ borā́	βορᾱ́ borā́	βοραί boraí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “βορά”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “βορά”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• βορά in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• 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
• βορά in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “βορά”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • fare idem, page 307.
  • food idem, page 333.