hour

Εννοια (English)

A unit of time of one twenty-fourth of a day (sixty minutes).
A season, moment, or time.
The time.
Used after a two-digit hour and a two-digit minute to indicate time.
The amount of labor demanded by an employer in terms of time.
The set times of prayer, the canonical hours, the offices or services prescribed for these, or a book containing them.
A distance that can be traveled in one hour.

time

⌚

o’clock

one hour

time of the year

working hours

60 minutes

Συχνότητα

Προφέρεται ως (IPA)

/ˈaʊə(ɹ)/

Inherited from Μέσα Αγγλικά

Cognate with Παλαιά Αγγλικά

In summary

From Middle English houre, hour, oure, from Anglo-Norman houre, from Old French houre, (h)ore, from Latin hōra (“hour”), from Ancient Greek ὥρα (hṓra, “any time or period, whether of the year, month, or day”), from Proto-Indo-European *yóh₁r̥ (“year, season”). Akin to Old English ġēar (“year”). Doublet of hora and year. Partly displaced native Old English tīd (“time, hour”), whence Modern English tide.

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