1. ὀπώρα · opōra — Chantraine
The corpus record
ὀπώρα
opora
Τὸ) ion
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Where it lives
- Apollodorus Against Nicostratus 1 · 5/10k
- Suppliant Maidens 2 · 4.15/10k
- De Mundo 1 · 1.58/10k
- Trachiniae 1 · 1.38/10k
- Peace 1 · 1.26/10k
- Jeremias 3 · 1.08/10k
- Revelation 1 · 1.01/10k
- Birds 1 · 0.94/10k
- Laws 8 · 0.78/10k
- Athenian Constitution 1 · 0.61/10k
- Economics 1 · 0.56/10k
- Odyssey 3 · 0.35/10k
Densest 12 of 16 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. ὀπώρα · opōra — Frisk
3. ὀπώρα · opōra — Frisk
4. ὀπώρα · opōra — Frisk
5. ὀπώρ-α · opōr-a — LSJ
the part of the year between the rising of Sirius and of Arcturus (i.e. the last days of July, all Aug., and part of Sept.), the latter part of summer; Hom. names θέρος and ὀπώρη together, θέρος τεθαλυῖά τʼ ὀπώρη Od. 11.192 ; Σείριος being the star of ὀπώρη, Il. 22.27 ; cf. ὀπωρινός.—In later times it became the name of a definite season, autumn (v. ὥρα I.1 c), but was still used sts. to denote summer (autumn being distd. as φθινόπωρον or μετόπωρον), ἀρξάμενος ἀπὸ τοῦ ἠρινοῦ χρόνου πρὸ ὀπώρας X
fruit, γλαυκῆς ὀπώρας . . ποτοῦ χυθέντος . . Βακχίας ἀπʼ ἀμπέλου S. Tr. 703 ; τέμνεται βλαστουμένη καλῶς ὀ. Id. Fr. 255.8 ; σικυούς, βότρυς, ὀπώραν Ar. Fr. 569.1 : so in Prose, X. HG 2.4.25, Pl. Lg. 844d, 845c, Arist. HA 606b2, 629a2 : in this sense also in pl., Is. 11.43 ; Alcm. (75) even calls honey κηρίνα ὀπώρα; ἐαρινὴ ὀπώρα Alciphr. Fr. 6.10.
metaph., lifeʼs summer, the time of youthful ripeness, Pi. I. 2.5 ; τέρειναν ματέρʼ οἰνάνθας ὀπώραν (v. οἰνάνθη) Id. N. 5.6 ; ripe virginity, A. Supp. 998, 1015 ; ὀ. Κύπριδος Chaerem. 12.
In the wild
- ὀπώρας · opōras Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 1015
- ὀπώρα · opōra Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 998
- ὀπώρας · opōras Aristophanes, Birds (DIORISIS sentence 564)
- ὀπώρας · opōras Aristophanes, Peace 3 (DIORISIS sentence 410)
- ὀπώρας · opōras Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..27 (DIORISIS sentence 338)
- ὀπώρας · opōras Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 167)
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Where it came from
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. ὀπώρα (scan p. 830; entry #5990).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. ὀπώρα (scan pp. 1380-1381; entry #4306).
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