1. ἦρα · ēra — Beekes
The corpus record
Ἥρα
era
service, favor
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Where it lives
- Helen 15 · 15.33/10k
- Heracles 12 · 15.33/10k
- Theogony 9 · 13.07/10k
- Iliad 121 · 10.85/10k
- Suppliant Maidens 5 · 10.37/10k
- Prometheus Bound 4 · 6.8/10k
- Bacchae 5 · 6.65/10k
- Ichneutae 1 · 5.82/10k
- Trojan Women 4 · 5.65/10k
- Apology 1 · 5/10k
- Symposium 4 · 4.2/10k
- Iphigenia in Aulis 3 · 3.36/10k
Densest 12 of 43 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. Ἥρα · Hēra — Beekes
3. ἔρα · era — Chantraine
4. ἦρα · ēra — Chantraine
5. Ἥρᾶ · Hēra — Chantraine
6. Ἥρα · Hēra — Chantraine
7. ἔρα · era — Frisk
8. ἦρα · ēra — Frisk
9. Ἥρα · Hēra — Frisk
10. ἦρα · ēra — Frisk
11. Ἥρα · Hēra — Frisk
12. ἔρα · era — LSJ
earth, Erot. s.v. ἕρπει, Sch.Il.Oxy. 221x28, EM 369.24 Hsch. (also expld. as, = κοιλία), cf. Str. 16.4.27:—Adv. ἔραζε, Dor. ἔρασδε, to earth, κατὰ δὲ πτερὰ χεῦεν ἔραζε Od. 15.527 ; ἀπὸ δʼ εἴδατα χεῦεν ἔ. 22.85, cf. Hes. Op. 421, 473 ; so νιφάδες δʼ ὡς πῖπτον ἔ. Il. 12.156 ; οὑμὸς δὲ πότμος..κυρῶν ἄνω ἔ. πίπτει A. Fr. 159 ; ὄρπακες βραβύλοισι καταβρίθοντες ἔρασδε Theoc. 7.146 ; on the ground, θάλλειν Mosch. 2.66.
13. ἤρᾱ · ēra — LSJ
3 sg. impf. of ἐράω.
Boeot. for ἤρω, 2 sg. aor. 1 Med. of αἴρω, Ar. Ach. 913 (v.l. ἤρω).
14. ἦρᾰ · ēra — LSJ
1 sg. aor. 1 of αἴρω:—but ἤραʼ, i.e. ἤραο, Ep. for ἤρω, 2 sg. aor. 1 Med. of αἴρω, Od. 24.33.
contr. fr. ἦ ἄρα in dialects other than Att., as Sapph. 102, Alc. 94, Alcm. 61, Pi. P. 9.37, B. 5.165, Sophr. 1 D., Hp. Prorrh. 1.117, 120, 121 (ἆρα ibid.), Herod. 4.21, 5.14, Call. Fr. 1.51 P., cf. A.D. Conj. 223.25.
15. ἦρα · ēra — LSJ
= χάριν, service, gratification, θυμῷ ἦ. φέροντες Il. 14.132; μητρὶ φίλῃ ἐπὶ ἦ. φέρων 1.572, cf. 578; ἐπʼ Ἀτρεΐδῃ Ἀγαμέμνονι ἦ. φέροντες Od. 3.164; λαοί . . ἐφʼ ἡμῖν ἦ. φέρουσιν 16.375; ἐπʼ Ἴρῳ ἦ. φέρων 18.56; ἦ. κομίζειν Orph. L. 761.
later c. gen., = χάριν, for the sake of, on account of, for, ἦ. πάλας B. 10.21; ἦ. φιλοξενίης Call. Fr. 41, cf. Dosiad. Ara 18; τίνος ἦ.; wherefore? APl. 16.299. (Hdn.Gr. 1.398 rightly makes it acc. of a Subst. ἤρ; Aristarch. took ἐπίηρα as one word, Sch. Il. 1.572, Apollon. Lex., but there is no ἐπί in Il. 14.132, and ἐπίηρα (q.v.) in later poets proves nothing for Hom.: —prob. (ϝ)ῆρα, perh.cogn. with ONorse váé ‘snug’, ‘comfortable’, OHG. alawâri ‘friendly’ (Germ. albern ), Goth. unwērjan ( =
16. Ἥρα · Hēra — LSJ
Hera, Il. 16.432, etc.; νὴ τὴν Ἥραν, an oath of Athen. women, X. Mem. 1.5.5.
applied to the Empresses of Rome, as Ζεύς to the Emperors, IG 9(2).333 (Thess.), CIG 3956b (add.).
Pythag. name for nine, Theol.Ar. 58.
the planet Venus, Arist. Mu. 392a28, Ti.Locr. 96e. (Perh. connected with ἥρως and Lat. servo, cf. Ἡρϝαῷοι,= inhabitants of Heraea.)
Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. Ἥρα (scan p. 571; entry #2489).
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. Ἥρα (scan p. 430; entry #3038). Root candidates: *yér-.
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. Ἥρα (scan p. 674; entry #2361). Root candidates: *ser-.
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