Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• Ἥρη ‎(Hḗrē) Ionic, Epic

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /íra/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /íra/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /íɾa/

Proper noun

Ἥρᾱ • ‎(Hḗrā) f ‎(genitive Ἥρας); 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

Inflection

Derived terms

• Ἡραῖον ‎(Hēraîon)
• Ἡραία ‎(Hēraía)
• Ἡραιῆς ‎(Hēraiês)
• Ἡρακλῆς ‎(Hēraklês) (and its derived terms)
• Ἡράκλειτος ‎(Hērákleitos)
• Ἡρόδοτος ‎(Hēródotos)
• Ἡρῴδης ‎(Hērṓidēs)

Descendants

• Greek: Ήρα ‎(Íra)
• Latin: Hera

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 0-19-860641-9, pages 682–683
2. ↑ Walter Burkert (1985) Greek Religion, Malden, MA: Blackwell, ISBN 0-631-15624-0, page 131