English

Proper noun

Cora

1. A female given name.
   • 1826 James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans/Chapter 2:

     The youth had turned to speak to the dark-eyed Cora, when the distant sound of horses hoofs, clattering over the roots of the broken way in his rear, caused him to check his charger;

   • 1990, Ed McBain, Vespers, Mandarin (1991), ISBN 0749305967, page 78:

     "Where are you from originally, Coral?" "Indiana." "Lots of Corals out there, I bet." She hesitated, seemed about to flare, and then smiled instead, showing a little gap between two front teeth. "Well, it was Cora Lucille, I guess, " she said, still smiling, looking very much like a Cora Lucille in that moment. Hawes imagined pigtails tied with polka-dot rags.

Anagrams

• arco
• Caro
• ocra
• orca

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.ra/, [ˈkɔ.ra]

Proper noun

Cora f ‎(genitive Corae); first declension

1. an ancient city in Latium, situated between Norba and Velitrae, now Cori

Declension

First declension.

Derived terms

• Corānus
• Coracēsium

References

• Cŏra in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Cora in William Smith., editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “Cora”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

Catalan

Noun

cora f ‎(plural cores)

1. kore

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔɾˠə/

Etymology 1

From Middle Irish cora ‎(“stone fence; weir”).

Noun

cora f ‎(genitive singular cora, nominative plural coraí)

1. weir

Declension

Alternative inflected forms:

• genitive singular: coradh, corann
• dative singular: coraidh, corainn
• plural: coradha, coraidheacha, coraíocha

Etymology 2

Noun

cora

1. plural of cor

Mutation

References

• “cora (‘stone fence; weir’)” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• “cora” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
• "cora" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.ra/, [ˈkɔ.ra]

Noun

cora f ‎(genitive corae); first declension

1. pupil (of the eye)

Derived terms

• coram

Lower Sorbian

Alternative forms

• wcora (obsolete)

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *vьčera. Cognate with Upper Sorbian wčera, Polish wczoraj, Czech včera, Russian вчера́ ‎(včerá), Old Church Slavonic вьчєра ‎(vĭčera).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sɔra/

Adverb

cora

1. yesterday

Portuguese

Verb

cora

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of corar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of corar

Spanish

Etymology

From American English quarter

Noun

cora f ‎(plural coras)

1. (El Salvador) A US currency coin worth 25 cents, a quarter.

Synonyms

• cuarto (Panama)