Cora

Meanings

Proper Noun

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

Noun

• A member of the Cora people.

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 for Περσεφόνη. It could also refer directly to κόρη.