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Cora
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Appendix:Variations of "cora"
English
Pronunciation
en /ˈkɔːɹə/ RP
en /ˈkoɹə/ GA
en ɔːɹə 2
en Kora kora
Etymology 1
Apparently brought up in English literature by James Fenimore Cooper in The Last of the Mohicans (1826), but compare a female heroine of this name in Jean-François Marmontel's Les Incas (1777) and the en grc - epithet grc Κόρη for grc Περσεφόνη. It could also refer directly to grc κόρη maiden.
Proper noun
en female Ancient Greek.
2 I 19 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; .
en 1990 w:Ed McBain Vespers 78 Mandarin 1991 0749305967 "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.
en Edward Helmore; Maya Yang Judge declares mistrial in Lindsay Clancy case after jury deadlocked again w:The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/04/lindsay-clancy-mistrial 2026-09-04 Clancy, a former neonatal and delivery nurse, had been accused of strangling her three children, Cora, five, Dawson, three, and Callan, eight months, in the family’s Duxbury home in January 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20260905004633/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/04/lindsay-clancy-mistrial
Related terms
en Cora Lynn
Etymology 2
Proper noun
An indigenous people of west-central Mexico.
The Uto-Aztecan language spoken by the Cora people.
Noun
A member of the Cora people.
Translations
member of the Cora people
Tepecano: tep kuʼʹu·r
Anagrams
en acor acro acro- AOCR Arco arco Caro CRAO ocra orca RAOC Roca
en Ethnonyms Languages
Latin
Etymology
la
Pronunciation
Cora
Proper noun
Cora<1.loc>
la ancient city p/Latium, situated between Norba and Velitrae, now Cori
Declension
Cora<1.loc>
Derived terms
la Corānus
la Coracēsium
References
Cŏra Cora3
la Italy
Tagalog
Etymology
tl :clipping Corazon + 1
Pronunciation
Proper noun
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tl female Corazon