different between kouros vs kore

English

Etymology

From Ionic Ancient Greek ?????? (koûros), variant of Attic ????? (kóros, “boy”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ku???s/

Noun

kouros (plural kouroi)

1. A sculpture of a naked youth in Ancient Greece, the male equivalent of a kore.
   • 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:

     A redstone kouros from Sounion, this strapping young Amsterdammer, translated into the slenderer grace of the modern graminivore.

   • 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:

     The smiling kouros is the first fully free-standing sculpture in art.

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