ἄρα
Ancient Greek
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- ἔρᾰ (éră) — Cypriot
- ᾰ̓́ρ (ắr), (Cypriot) ἔρ (ér) — before a consonant
- ᾰ̓́ρ’ (ắr’), (Cypriot) ἔρ’ (ér’) — apocopic
- ῥᾰ (rhă), (apocopic) ῥ’ (rh’) — after a monosyllabic word or a word ending in a vowel
Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Indo-European *h₂er- (“thus, so”), probably as a grammaticalization of the sense "to fit, fix". Cognates include Lithuanian ir̃ (“and; so”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /á.ra/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈa.ra/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈa.ra/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈa.ra/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈa.ra/
Conjunction
[edit]ᾰ̓́ρᾰ • (ắră)
References
[edit]- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “ἄρα”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 121
Further reading
[edit]- “ἄρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἄρα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἄρα 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
- ἄρα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- ἄρα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2026)
- “ἄρα”, in Slater, William J. (1969), Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G686 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.