μοῖρα
See also: μοίρα and Μοῖρα
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- μοῖρ’ (moîr’) – apocopic
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *móřřā, o-grade of the root of μείρομαι (meíromai, “to receive as one's portion”) + -ιᾰ (-ia, feminine suffix).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /môi̯.ra/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈmy.ra/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmy.ra/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmy.ra/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈmi.ra/
Noun
μοῖρᾰ • (moîra) f (genitive μοίρᾱς); first declension
- part, portion
- degree
- political party
- lot, destiny
- that which is right
Inflection
First declension of ἡ μοῖρᾰ; τῆς μοίρᾱς (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ μοῖρᾰ hē moîra | τὼ μοίρᾱ tṑ moírā | αἱ μοῖραι hai moîrai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς μοίρᾱς tês moírās | τοῖν μοίραιν toîn moírain | τῶν μοιρῶν tôn moirôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ μοίρᾳ têi moírāi | τοῖν μοίραιν toîn moírain | ταῖς μοίραις taîs moírais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν μοῖρᾰν tḕn moîran | τὼ μοίρᾱ tṑ moírā | τᾱ̀ς μοίρᾱς tā̀s moírās | ||||||||||
Vocative | μοῖρᾰ moîra | μοίρᾱ moírā | μοῖραι moîrai | ||||||||||
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First declension of ἡ μοῖρᾰ; τῆς μοίρης (Ionic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ μοῖρᾰ hē moîra | τὼ μοίρᾱ tṑ moírā | αἱ μοῖραι hai moîrai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς μοίρης tês moírēs | τοῖν μοίραιν toîn moírain | τῶν μοιρέων / μοιρῶν tôn moiréōn / moirôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ μοίρῃ têi moírēi | τοῖν μοίραιν toîn moírain | τῇσῐ / τῇσῐν μοίρῃσῐ / μοίρῃσῐν têisi(n) moírēisi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν μοῖρᾰν tḕn moîran | τὼ μοίρᾱ tṑ moírā | τᾱ̀ς μοίρᾱς tā̀s moírās | ||||||||||
Vocative | μοῖρᾰ moîra | μοίρᾱ moírā | μοῖραι moîrai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- κᾰκόμοιρος (kakómoiros)
- μ̊ (m̊)
- Μοιροκλῆς (Moiroklês)
Related terms
- Μοῖρᾰ (Moîra)
Descendants
- Greek: μοίρα (moíra)
- → English: moirocaust
Further reading
- “μοῖρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μοῖρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “μοῖρα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- μοῖρα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “μοῖρα”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- μοῖρα in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- death idem, page 198.
- destiny idem, page 217.
- division idem, page 244.
- dole idem, page 246.
- doom idem, page 247.
- fate idem, page 309.
- lot idem, page 501.
- office idem, page 571.
- parcel idem, page 592.
- part idem, page 593.
- piece idem, page 611.
- portion idem, page 627.
- section idem, page 747.
- share idem, page 762.
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- μοῖρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette