ἄρουρα [ᾰρ]
(ἀρωραῖος in [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 762] Refs 5th c.BC+] is hyperdorian mode, as shown by Aeolic dialect ἄρουρα[[ 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica “Papyrus fragments” in E. Diehl, 25.11, 5th c.AD: Cypria ] Refs 7th c.BC+] a ro u ra i (dative singular) [[ “Inscription Cyprian dialect” 135.20H.)] Refs], ἡ, (ἀρόω) tilled or arable land, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.68, etc.; φυταλιῆς καὶ ἀρούρης 6.195; οὖθαρ ἀρούρης 9.141, +others; τέλσον ἀρούρης 18.544] Refs 8th c.BC+]: in plural, corn-lands, fields, [[ 14.122, 23.599: rare in Prose, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 22e, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1284a30, “Inscription Cyprian dialect” [prev. cited] ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 generally, earth, ground, ὀλίγη δ᾽ ἦν ἀμφὶς ἄ.[[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.115; σέο δ᾽ ὀστέα πύσει ἄ. 4.174. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__3 land, generally, ={γ; πατρὶς ἄ}. father-land, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.407] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἄ. πατρία, πατρῴα, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 2.14, “I.” 1.35. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__4 the earth, ἐπὶ ζείδωρον ἄ.[[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.486, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 7.332; ἄχθος ἀρούρης 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.104. +others ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__5 metaphorically of a woman as receiving seed and bearing fruit, [[ 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 582, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 754 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1257, compare “Tr.” 32; ἄ. θήλεια 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 839a, compare “Ti.” 91d. ] Refs 6th c.BC+]