kore
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κόρη (kórē, “girl, maiden”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɔəɹeɪ/
Audio (UK) (file)
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈkoɹeɪ/
Noun
kore (plural korai or kores)
- (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.
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Coordinate terms
- kouros (statue of a male)
Related terms
- korephilia
Translations
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Further reading
Kore (sculpture) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- kero, oker, roke
Afrikaans
Noun
kore
- plural of koor
Albanian
Etymology
From Proto-Albanian *kāsra, from 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 (indefinite plural kore, definite singular korja, definite plural koret)
- scrub, crust (of baked products, wounds)
Related terms
- kothere
- kërce
Esperanto
Etymology
koro + -e
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Adverb
kore
- cordially, heartily
- 1999, “Kore Bonvenon / Intro”, in Esperanto, performed by Freundeskreis:
- Estu kore bonvenaj por la dua albumo de Amikaro / Sub la titolo “Esperanto”
- (please add an English translation of this quote)
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Finnish
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κόρη (kórē, “girl, maiden”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkore/, [ˈko̞re̞]
- Rhymes: -ore
- Syllabification(key): ko‧re
Noun
kore
- 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
Hausa
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kóː.rèː/
- (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [kʷóː.rèː]
Adjective
kōr̃ḕ (feminine kōr̃ìyā, plural kōr̃ā̀yē or kwâr̃r̃ā)
- green
Japanese
Romanization
kore
- Rōmaji transcription of これ
Kabuverdianu
Etymology
From Portuguese correr.
Verb
kore
- to run
- to race
- to hurry
Latvian
Noun
kore f (5th declension)
- ridge
- gable
- comb
- crest
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 |
Maori
Adjective
kore
- without (not having)
Numeral
kore
- zero
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
kore (present tense korar, past tense kora, past participle kora, passive infinitive korast, present participle korande, imperative kore/kor)
- to choir
Papiamentu
Etymology
From Portuguese correr and Spanish correr and Kabuverdianu kori and Kabuverdianu kore.
Verb
kore
- to flow
- to run
Serbo-Croatian
Verb
kore (Cyrillic spelling коре)
- third-person plural present indicative of koriti
Ternate
Noun
kore
- 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