CORAとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈkɔːɹə/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈkoɹə/
• 韻: -ɔːɹə
• 異形同音異義語: Kora, kora

語源 1

Apparently brought up in English literature by James Fenimore Cooper in The Last of the Mohicans (1826), but compare a female heroine of this name in Jean-François Marmontel's Les Incas (1777) and the Ancient Greek epithet Κόρη (Kórē) for Περσεφόνη (Persephónē). It could also refer directly to κόρη (kórē, “maiden”).

固有名詞

Cora

1. A female given name from Ancient Greek.
   • 1826, [James Fenimore Cooper], chapter 2, in The Last of the Mohicans; a Narrative of 1757. […], volume I, Philadelphia, Pa.: H[enry] C[harles] Carey & I[saac] Lea— […], →OCLC, page 19:

     The youth had turned to speak to the dark-eyed Cora, when the distant sound of horses' hoofs, clattering over the roots of the broken way in his rear, caused him to check his charger; […] .

   • 1990, Ed McBain, Vespers, Mandarin, published 1991, →ISBN, page 78:

     "Where are you from originally, Coral?" "Indiana." "Lots of Corals out there, I bet." She hesitated, seemed about to flare, and then smiled instead, showing a little gap between two front teeth. "Well, it was Cora Lucille, I guess, " she said, still smiling, looking very much like a Cora Lucille in that moment. Hawes imagined pigtails tied with polka-dot rags.

関連する語

• Cora Lynn

語源 2

固有名詞

Cora

1. An indigenous people of west-central Mexico.
2. The Uto-Aztecan language spoken by the Cora people.

名詞

Cora (plural Coras)

1. A member of the Cora people.

アナグラム

• acro, acro-, AOCR, Arco, arco, Caro, CRAO, ocra, orca, RAOC, Roca

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈkɔ.ra]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈkɔː.ra]

固有名詞

Cora f sg (genitive Corae); first declension

1. an ancient city in Latium, situated between Norba and Velitrae, now Cori

語形変化

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

派生語

• Corānus
• Coracēsium

参照

• “Cŏra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Cora”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• “Cora”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.