Feminine
hora
Sentences
Meaning
- (feminine) hour (period of sixty minutes)
- (feminine) time (point in time)
Concepts
o’clock
60 minutes
school term
academic term
academic session
clock time
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈɔ.ɾɐ/
Etymology
In summary
From Old Galician-Portuguese ora, from Latin hōra (“hour”), from Ancient Greek ὥρα (hṓra, “time, season, year”), from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₁- (“year, season”). Doublet of ora. Cognate with Galician, Spanish, and Catalan hora, Occitan and Italian ora, French heure and Romanian oară.
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