Cora

Meaning

1. An indigenous people of west-central Mexico.
2. A female given name from Ancient Greek.
3. A member of the Cora people.
4. The Uto-Aztecan language spoken by the Cora people.

Etymology / origin

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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