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Cora

//ˈkɔːɹə// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A female given name from Ancient Greek.

    "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; […]."

  2. 2
    An indigenous people of west-central Mexico.
  3. 3
    The Uto-Aztecan language spoken by the Cora people.
Noun
  1. 1
    A member of the Cora people.

Etymology

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 Ancient Greek epithet Κόρη (Kórē) for Περσεφόνη (Persephónē). It could also refer directly to κόρη (kórē, “maiden”).

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