hora
EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Hebrew הוֹרָה (hóra), Yiddish האָרע (hore), and Romanian horă, from Turkish hora, probably from Greek χορός (chorós, “dance”).[1] Doublet of chorus.
NounEdit
hora (plural horas)
TranslationsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
Borrowed from Sanskrit होरा (horā, “hour”). Doublet of hour.
NounEdit
hora (uncountable)
- A branch of traditional Indian astrology, dealing with the finer points of predictive methods.
ReferencesEdit
- ^ “hora”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition (2008).
AnagramsEdit
AsturianEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
hora m (plural hores)
CatalanEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
hora f (plural hores)
- hour (sixty minutes)
- time (the moment as indicated by a clock)
- Quina hora és? ― What time is it?
- time (the appropriate hour to do something)
- appointment
- Synonym: cita
- Tinc hora al metge. ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
Derived termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “hora” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “hora”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2022
- “hora” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “hora” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
CzechEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Czech hora, from Proto-Slavic *gora, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *garā́ˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH-.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
hora f
DeclensionEdit
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- hora in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- hora in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
Eastern Huasteca NahuatlEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
hora
- hour.
FaroeseEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Norse hóra, from Proto-Germanic *hōrǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ros (“dear, loved”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
hora f (genitive singular horu, plural horur)
- (vulgar) whore, (female) prostitute
- (vulgar, slang, derogatory) slut
- (nautical, humorous) tusk, cusk
DeclensionEdit
Declension of hora | ||||
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f1 | singular | plural | ||
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | hora | horan | horur | horurnar |
accusative | horu | horuna | horur | horurnar |
dative | horu | horuni | horum | horunum |
genitive | horu | horunnar | hora | horanna |
SynonymsEdit
FinnishEdit
NounEdit
hora
- hora (dance)
DeclensionEdit
Inflection of hora (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | hora | horat | |
genitive | horan | horien | |
partitive | horaa | horia | |
illative | horaan | horiin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | hora | horat | |
accusative | nom. | hora | horat |
gen. | horan | ||
genitive | horan | horien horainrare | |
partitive | horaa | horia | |
inessive | horassa | horissa | |
elative | horasta | horista | |
illative | horaan | horiin | |
adessive | horalla | horilla | |
ablative | horalta | horilta | |
allative | horalle | horille | |
essive | horana | horina | |
translative | horaksi | horiksi | |
instructive | — | horin | |
abessive | horatta | horitta | |
comitative | — | horineen |
Possessive forms of hora (type koira) | ||
---|---|---|
possessor | singular | plural |
1st person | horani | horamme |
2nd person | horasi | horanne |
3rd person | horansa |
AnagramsEdit
Franco-ProvençalEdit
NounEdit
hora f
GalicianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Galician and Old Portuguese ora, a semi-learned borrowing from Latin hōra (“hour”). Doublet of ora.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
hora f (plural horas)
- hour
- time of the day
- Que hora é? ― What time is it?
- regular or designated time for doing something
ReferencesEdit
- “hora” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “hora” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “hora” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “hora” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “hora” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
InterlinguaEdit
NounEdit
hora (plural horas)
Derived termsEdit
- libro de horas Book of hours
ItalianEdit
NounEdit
hora f (plural hore)
- Obsolete form of ora.
AnagramsEdit
JapaneseEdit
RomanizationEdit
hora
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὥρα (hṓra, “time, season, year”), from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₁- (“year, season”).
PronunciationEdit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈhoː.ra/, [ˈhoːrä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈo.ra/, [ˈɔːrä]
Audio (Classical) (file)
NounEdit
hōra f (genitive hōrae); first declension
- hour
- c. 1050?, Ave Maria (Hail Mary)
- Et in hora mortis nostrae.
- And in the hour of our death.
- Et in hora mortis nostrae.
- c. 1050?, Ave Maria (Hail Mary)
- time
- c. 2 A.D., Ovid, Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love, ELEGY XI)
- Dum loquor, hora fugit.
- Even as I speak, time fleeteth way.
- Dum loquor, hora fugit.
- c. 2 A.D., Ovid, Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love, ELEGY XI)
- o'clock
- season; time of year
DeclensionEdit
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | hōra | hōrae |
Genitive | hōrae | hōrārum |
Dative | hōrae | hōrīs |
Accusative | hōram | hōrās |
Ablative | hōrā | hōrīs |
Vocative | hōra | hōrae |
DescendantsEdit
From ad hōram:
From hanc hōram:
From hāc hōrā:
- Gallo-Italic:
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Borrowings
ReferencesEdit
- “hora”, in Charlton T[homas] Lewis; Charles [Lancaster] Short (1879) […] A New Latin Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company; Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- “hora”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- hora in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- what time is it: quota hora est?
- it is the third hour (= 9 A.M.: tertia hora est
- at the time agreed on: ad horam compositam
- what time is it: quota hora est?
- “hora”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “hora”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Middle EnglishEdit
DeterminerEdit
hora
- (chiefly Early Middle English and West Midlands) Alternative form of here (“their”)
Norwegian BokmålEdit
Alternative formsEdit
NounEdit
hora m or f
Norwegian NynorskEdit
NounEdit
hora f
Old SwedishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Norse hóra, from Proto-Germanic *hōrǭ.
NounEdit
hōra f
DeclensionEdit
singular | plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | hōra | hōran | hōru(r), -o(r) | hōruna(r), -ona(r) |
accusative | hōru, -o | hōruna, -ona | hōru(r), -o(r) | hōruna(r), -ona(r) |
dative | hōru, -o | hōrunni, -onne | hōrum, -om | hōrumin, -omen |
genitive | hōru, -o | hōrunna(r), -onna(r) | hōra | hōranna |
DescendantsEdit
- Swedish: hora
PortugueseEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Portuguese ora, from Latin hōra (“hour”), from Ancient Greek ὥρα (hṓra, “time, season, year”), from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₁- (“year, season”).
Cognate with Galician hora, Spanish hora, Catalan hora, Occitan ora, French heure, Italian ora and Romanian oară.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
hora f (plural horas)
- hour (period of sixty minutes)
- Há vinte e quatro horas num dia.
- There are twenty-four hours in a day.
- time (point in time)
- A alguma hora, eu passo aí.
- At some time, I’ll hop over there.
- Que horas são?
- What time is it?
QuotationsEdit
For quotations using this term, see Citations:hora.
Derived termsEdit
- horinha (diminutive)
DescendantsEdit
RomanianEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
hora f
Rwanda-RundiEdit
VerbEdit
-hóra (infinitive guhóra, perfective -hóze)
Derived termsEdit
VerbEdit
-hōra (infinitive guhōra, perfective -hōye)
- to avenge
SlovakEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Slavic *gora, from Proto-Indo-European *gwerH-.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
hora f (genitive singular hory, nominative plural hory, genitive plural hôr, declension pattern of žena)
DeclensionEdit
Derived termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- hora in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk
SpanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
hora f (plural horas)
- hour (a time period of sixty minutes)
- Hay veinticuatro horas por el día. ― There are twenty-four hours in a day.
- time (the moment, as indicated by a clock or similar device)
- ¿Qué hora es? ― What time is it?
- Ya es hora de ir. ― It's time to go.
- high time (usually with "ya")
- Ya es hora de ser abiertos y honestos entre nosotros.
- It's high time we be open and honest with each other.
- (education) hour, period (of class)
- Tengo un examen a primera hora mañana. ― I have a test during first period tomorrow.
- Tenemos juntos la tercera hora. ― We have third period together.
- (Spain, colloquial) appointment (e.g. with the doctor)
- Synonym: cita
Derived termsEdit
- a buena hora
- a buenas horas
- a la hora de
- altas horas
- a mil por hora
- a primera hora
- a su hora
- a toda hora
- a todas horas
- deshora
- de última hora
- enhorabuena
- enhoramala
- entre horas
- hora de dormir, hora de acostarse (“bedtime”)
- hora de verdad
- hora legal
- hora muerta
- hora pico
- hora punta
- horas de trabajo (“working hours”)
- horas extraordinarias (“overtime”)
- horas extras
- media hora
- no se ganó Zamora en una hora
- no ver la hora
- qué hora es
- última hora
- ya era hora
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- Papiamentu: ora
- Borrowings
Further readingEdit
- “hora”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
SwedishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Swedish hōra, from Old Norse hóra, from Proto-Germanic *hōrǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ros (“dear, loved”). Compare Danish hore, English whore, Dutch hoer, German Hure.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
hora c
DeclensionEdit
Declension of hora | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | hora | horan | horor | hororna |
Genitive | horas | horans | horors | horornas |
VerbEdit
hora (present horar, preterite horade, supine horat, imperative hora)
- to whore
ConjugationEdit
Active | Passive | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
Infinitive | hora | — | ||
Supine | horat | — | ||
Imperative | hora | — | ||
Imper. plural1 | horen | — | ||
Present | Past | Present | Past | |
Indicative | horar | horade | — | — |
Ind. plural1 | hora | horade | — | — |
Subjunctive2 | hore | horade | — | — |
Participles | ||||
Present participle | horande | |||
Past participle | — | |||
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs. |