Ἥρα

See also: ήρα and Ήρα

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly a feminine form of ἥρως (hḗrōs) or related to ὥρα (hṓra).[1][2]

Pronunciation

 

Proper noun

Ἥρᾱ • (Hḗrā) f (genitive Ἥρᾱς); first declension

  1. Hera
  2. a title of the empresses of Rome; see also Ζεύς (Zeús)
  3. Pythagorean name for nine
  4. the planet Venus

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References

  • Ἥρα in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Ἥρα in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Ἥρα in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
    • Hera idem, page 1012.
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,012
  1. ↑ André Mott; Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge (2003), “Hera”, in Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth (edd.), editor, The Oxford Classical Dictionary, 3rd edition, revised edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, pages 682–683
  2. ↑ Walter Burkert (1985) Greek Religion, Malden, MA: Blackwell, →ISBN, page 131
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