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ag·o·ra
1
/
ˈæg
ər
ə
/
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[
ag
-er-
uh
]
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noun,
plural
-o·rae
/
-əˌri
/
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[
-
uh
-ree
]
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.
(in ancient Greece)
1.
a popular political assembly.
2.
the place where such an assembly met, originally a marketplace or public square.
3.
the Agora,
the chief marketplace of Athens, center of the city's civic life.
Origin:
1590–1600;
<
Greek
agorā́
marketplace, equivalent to
agor-
(variant stem of
ageírein
to gather together < a pre-Hellenic IE substratum language, equivalent to
a
(
d
)-
ad-
+
*ǵher-
grasp, cognate with
Sanskrit
har-
seize, fetch) +
-ā
noun ending
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a·go·ra
2
/
ɑˈgɔr
ə
,
-ˈgoʊr
ə
;
Seph. Heb.
ɑ
gɔˈrɑ
/
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[
ah-
gawr
-
uh
,
-
gohr
-
uh
;
Seph. Heb.
ah-gaw-
r
ah
]
Show IPA
noun,
plural
a·go·rot
/
ɑˈgɔr
oʊt
,
-ˈgoʊr-
;
Seph. Heb.
ɑ
gɔˈrɔt
/
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[
ah-
gawr
-oht
,
-
gohr
-
;
Seph. Heb.
ah-gaw-
r
awt
]
Show IPA
.
an aluminum coin and monetary unit of Israel, the 100th part of a shekel: replaced the prutah as the fractional unit in 1960.
Also,
agura.
Origin:
<
Hebrew
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