kore

See also: Kore, korę, köré, köre, and køre

English

WOTD – 31 August 2012

A reconstruction of a kore

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek κόρη (kórē, “girl, maiden”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔəɹeɪ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈkoɹeɪ/

Noun

kore (plural korai or kores)

1. (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.

Coordinate terms

• kouros (statue of a male)

Related terms

• korephilia

Translations

sculpture

• Catalan: cora (ca) f
• Finnish: kore-veistos, kore
• French: coré (fr) f
• German: Kore (de) f
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• Greek: κόρη (el) f (kóri)
• Japanese: コレー (ja) (korē)
• Polish: kora (pl) f
• Russian: ко́ра (ru) (kóra)

Further reading

• Kore (sculpture) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• kero, oker, roke

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Afrikaans

Noun

kore

1. plural of koor

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Albanian

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Albanian *kāsra, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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

kore f (plural kore, definite korja, definite plural koret)

1. scrub, crust (of baked products, wounds)

Related terms

• kothere
• kërce

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Esperanto

Etymology

koro +‎ -e

Pronunciation

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Adverb

kore

1. cordially, heartily

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Finnish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κόρη (kórē, “girl, maiden”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ko‧re
• IPA^(key): /ˈkore/, [ˈko̞re̞]

Noun

kore

1. kore (Greek sculpture)

Declension

Speakers prefer not to inflect this word, and use it only for the nominative singular. If inflection is needed, the term kore-veistos (“kore-sculpture”) is used instead.

Synonyms

• kore-veistos

Anagrams

• kero

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Japanese

Romanization

kore

1. Rōmaji transcription of これ

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Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese correr.

Verb

kore

1. to run
2. to race
3. to hurry

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Latvian

Noun

kore f (5th declension)

1. ridge
2. gable
3. comb
4. crest

Declension

Declension of kore (5th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	kore	kores
accusative (akuzatīvs)	kori	kores
genitive (ģenitīvs)	kores	koru
dative (datīvs)	korei	korēm
instrumental (instrumentālis)	kori	korēm
locative (lokatīvs)	korē	korēs
vocative (vokatīvs)	kore	kores

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Maori

Adjective

kore

1. without (not having)

Numeral

kore

1. zero

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Papiamentu

Etymology

From Portuguese correr and Spanish correr and Kabuverdianu kori and Kabuverdianu kore.

Verb

kore

1. to flow
2. to run

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Ternate

Noun

kore

1. wind (real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or differences in air pressure)

Derived terms

• simote kore

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001). A Descriptive Study of the Language of Ternate, the Northern Moluccas, Indonesia. University of Pittsburgh