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English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???? (kór?, “girl, maiden”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k???e?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?ko?e?/

Noun

kore (plural korai or kores)

1. (art, sculpture) An Ancient Greek statue of a woman, portrayed standing, usually clothed, painted in bright colours and having an elaborate hairstyle.
   • 1966, Spyros Meletz?s, Helen? A. Papadak?, 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.

Coordinate terms

• kouros (statue of a male)

Related terms

• korephilia

Translations

Further reading

• Kore (sculpture) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• kero, oker, roke

Afrikaans

Noun

kore

1. plural of koor

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *k?sra, from Proto-Indo-European *kars (“to scratch, rub”). Compare Lithuanian kar?šti (“comb, curry”), Latvian k??ršu (“wool comb”), Latin cardus (“thistle”), Middle High German harsten (“become hard, rough”).

Noun

kore f (indefinite plural kore, definite singular korja, definite plural koret)

1. scrub, crust (of baked products, wounds)

Related terms

• kothere
• kërce

Esperanto

Etymology

koro +? -e

Pronunciation

Adverb

kore

1. cordially, heartily

Finnish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???? (kór?, “girl, maiden”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kore/, [?ko?re?]
• Rhymes: -ore
• Syllabification: ko?re

Noun

kore

1. 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

Japanese

Romanization

kore

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese correr.

Verb

kore

1. to run
2. to race
3. to hurry

Latvian

Noun

kore f (5th declension)

1. ridge
2. gable
3. comb
4. crest

Declension

Maori

Adjective

kore

1. without (not having)

Numeral

kore

1. zero

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

kore (present tense korar, past tense kora, past participle kora, passive infinitive korast, present participle korande, imperative kor)

1. to choir

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Portuguese correr and Spanish correr and Kabuverdianu kori and Kabuverdianu kore.

Verb

kore

1. to flow
2. to run

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

kore (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. third-person plural present indicative of koriti

Ternate

Noun

kore

1. 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

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: pôr, IPA^(key): /p??/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: pô, IPA^(key): /p??/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: p?r, IPA^(key): /po(?)?/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /po?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophones: pour, poor (in accents with the pour–poor merger); paw (non-rhotic accents with the horse–hoarse merger)

Etymology 1

From Middle English pore, from Old French pore, from Latin porus, from Ancient Greek ????? (póros, “passage”). Displaced native Old English sw?tþ?rel (literally “sweat hole”) and l?cþ?ote (literally “body pipe”).

Noun

pore (plural pores)

1. A tiny opening in the skin.
2. By extension any small opening or interstice, especially one of many, or one allowing the passage of a fluid.

Related terms

• porous

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English poren, pouren, puren (“to gaze intently, look closely”), from Old English *purian, suggested by Old English spyrian (“to investigate, examine”). Akin to Middle Dutch poren (“to pore, look”), Dutch porren (“to poke, prod, stir, encourage, endeavour, attempt”), Low German purren (“to poke, stir”), Danish purre (“to poke, stir, rouse”), dialectal Swedish pora, pura, påra (“to work slowly and gradually, work deliberately”), Old English spor (“track, trace, vestige”). Compare also Middle English puren, piren (“to look, peer”). See peer.

Verb

pore (third-person singular simple present pores, present participle poring, simple past and past participle pored)

1. to study meticulously; to go over again and again.
   • 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, part 1, chapter 10

     Yet each foreign post day she watched for the arrival of letters - knew the postmark, and watched me as I read. I found her often poring over the articles of Greek intelligence in the newspaper.

2. to meditate or reflect in a steady way.

Derived terms

• pore over

Translations

Anagrams

• Pero, oper, reop, repo, rope

Cornish

Noun

pore

1. Hard mutation of bore.

Danish

Etymology

From Latin porus, from Ancient Greek ????? (póros).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /po?r?/, [?p?o??]

Noun

pore c (singular definite poren, plural indefinite porer)

1. pore (a tiny opening in the skin)

Inflection

Finnish

Etymology

From por +? -e.

Noun

pore

1. bubble (gas bubble in water)
2. An area of molten water near the edge of ice in a melting lake.

Declension

Synonyms

• (bubble): kupla

Anagrams

• Repo, repo, rope

French

Etymology

From Old French pore, from Latin porus, from Ancient Greek ????? (póros, “passage”).

Noun

pore m (plural pores)

1. pore (small opening in skin)
2. by extension, small openings

Further reading

• “pore” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (póros, “passage”).

Noun

pore f or m (definite singular pora or poren, indefinite plural porer, definite plural porene)

1. a pore (e.g. in the skin)

Related terms

• porøs

References

• “pore” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (póros, “passage”).

Noun

pore f (definite singular pora, indefinite plural porer, definite plural porene)

1. a pore (e.g. in the skin)

Related terms

• porøs

References

• “pore” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin porus, from Ancient Greek ????? (póros, “passage”).

Noun

pore m (oblique plural pores, nominative singular pores, nominative plural pore)

1. pore (small opening in skin)

Venetian

Adjective

pore f

1. feminine plural of poro