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ὥρα

ora1

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What it meant — LSJ

some part of a sacrificial victim, λάψεται γλῶσσαν, ὀσφῦν δασέαν, ὤρην SIG 1037.2 (Milet., iv/iii B.C.); τοὺς Ἴωνας λέγειν φασὶ τὴν κωλῆν ὥρην καὶ ὡραίαν Sch.HQ Od. 12.89: but distd. fr. κωλῆ, λάψεται . . κωλῆν ἀντὶ τῆς ὤρης SIG l.c.5; cf. ἄωρος(B). (Perh. cogn. with Lat. sūra.)

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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