kore
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Ancient Greek κόρη (“girl, maiden”).
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
- (art, sculpture) An Ancient Greek statue of a woman, portrayed standing, usually clothed, painted in bright colours and having an elaborate hairstyle.
- 1966, Spyros Meletzēs, Helenē A. Papadakē, Akropolis and Museum, page 42,
- Mus. No 685: Archaic kore of island marble (500-490 B. C.) 4 ft high. Attic work. This kore is not wearing the Ionian smile, but a look of solemn gravity. She does not gather up her robes with the left hand like the other kores, […] .
- 1995, Irene Bald Romano, University of Pennsylvania Museum, The Terracotta Figurines and Related Vessels, page 14,
- Ducat believes that all the kore plastic vessels wearing transverse himatia ending in stepped folds over the abdomen originate in Rhodes (1966: 72).
- 2002, Matthew Dillon, Girls and Women in Classical Greek Religion, page 9,
- Inscribed dedications often took the form of korai (singular: kore): statues, usually life-size or larger of female figures, generally goddesses.
- 1966, Spyros Meletzēs, Helenē A. Papadakē, Akropolis and Museum, page 42,
Coordinate terms [edit]
- kouros (statue of a male)
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Albanian [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Proto-Albanian *kāsra, from Proto-Indo-European *kars 'to scratch, rub'. Compare Lithuanian kar̃šti (“comb, curry”), Latvian kā̀ršu (“wool comb”), Latin cardus (“thistle”), Middle High German harsten (“become hard, rough”).
Noun [edit]
kore f (indefinite plural kore, definite singular korja, definite plural koret)
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Finnish [edit]
Noun [edit]
kore
- kore (Greek sculpture)
Declension [edit]
Users seem to prefer not to inflect this word. If inflection is needed, the term kore-veistos ("core-sculpture") seems to be used instead.
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Declension of kore-veistos (type vastaus)
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Romanization [edit]
kore
- See これ
