ὀπώρ-α,
Ionic dialect ὀπώρ-η, ἡ: sometimes ὁπώρα, compare χεῖμα χὠπώραν, i.e. καὶ ὁπ-, [[ 7th c.BC: Alcman Lyricus 76 (χειμάχωι πάραν, etc. codices) ] Refs 7th c.BC+]; proper nouns Ὁπωρίς [[ “IG” 5(1).1497, “Hopora” “CIL” 6.21782 ] Refs]; compare μεθόπωρον, μεθοπωρινός:—the part of the year between the rising of Sirius and of Arcturus (i.e. the last days of July, all Aug., and part of Sept.), the latter part of summer; [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus names θέρος and ὀπώρη] Refs 8th c.BC+] together, θέρος τεθαλυῖά τ᾽ ὀπώρη [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.192 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; Σείριος being the star of ὀπώρη, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.27 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; compare ὀπωρινός.—In later times it became the name of a definite season, autumn (see. ὥρα [[ 1.1 c)] Refs], but was still used sometimes to denote summer (autumn being distinguished as φθινόπωρον or μετόπωρον), ἀρξάμενος ἀπὸ τοῦ ἠρινοῦ χρόνου πρὸ ὀπώρας [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 3.2.10, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 709, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 348a1; ἐπ᾽ ὀκτὼ μῆνας Κυρηναίους ὀπώρη ἐπέχει 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.199; νέας δ᾽ ὀπώρας ἡνίκ᾽ ἂν ξανθῇ στάχυς 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 304.7. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II fruit, γλαυκῆς ὀπώρας.. ποτοῦ χυθέντος.. Βακχίας ἀπ᾽ ἀμπέλου [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 703; τέμνεται βλαστουμένη καλῶς ὀ. [prev. author] “fragment” 255.8; σικυούς, βότρυς, ὀπώραν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 569.1: so in Prose, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 2.4.25, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 844d, 845c, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 606b2, 629a2 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: in this sense also in plural, [[ 4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 11.43; 7th c.BC: Alcman Lyricus (75)] Refs 7th c.BC+] even calls honey κηρίνα ὀπώρ; ἐαρινὴ ὀπώρα [[ 4th c.AD: Alciphro Epistolographus “fragment” 6.10. ] Refs 4th c.AD+]