Dora (name)
Dora is a female name of Greek origin, derived from Dorothea or Theodora,[1] meaning "God's Gift", from "δῶρον" (doron), "gift"[2] + "θεός" (theos), "god".[3] The earliest form of the word is the Mycenaean Greek do-ra, meaning "gift", written in Linear B syllabic script. [4]
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References
- ^ Dora, Behind the Name
- ^ δῶρον, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus Digital Library
- ^ θεός, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus Digital Library
- ^ Palaeolexicon, Word study tool of ancient languages