Oxford Latin Dictionary
Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, 803.hōra on page 803
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hōra hour
hōra is a Latin Noun that primarily means hour.
Definitions for hōra
Wheelock's Latin
Noun
- 1
hour, time
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Noun
- 1
A twelfth part of the day between sunrise and sunset (varying with the season and latitude), sim. a twelfth part of the night, an hour. (b) from hour to hour, hourly; at all times; of or suited to all times or occasions. (c) a similar division in te lunar day.
- 2
(pl.) The indication of the hours on a clock. (b) the time (by the clock); (concr.) a clock.
- 3
A particular hour of the day or night; (also, in general) a definite time. (b) the proper or appointed hour; (astrol.) the ascendant; at the appointed time, punctually; (also leg., app.) at the hour for preliminary proceedings.
Sentences with hōra
Latin to English
Tempus fugit; hōrae fugiunt; senectūs venit.Compare Time flees; the hours flee; old age is coming.
Dīxistī tē domum Athēnīs ūnā hōrā reditūrum esse.Compare You said that you would return home from Athens in one hour.
Complūrēs hōrās ācriter pugnābātur.Compare The fighting went on fiercely for several hours.
Inter spem curamque, timores et iras omnem crede diem tibi diluxisse supremum. Grata supervenien, quae non sperabitur hora.Compare In a world of hope and care, of fears and angry passions, hold for yourself the belief that each day that dawns is your last: the hour to which you do not look forward will be a pleasant surprise.
Indulge genio, carpamus dulcia, nostrum est quod vivis, cinis et manes et fabula fies. Vive memor leti, fugit hora. hoc quod loquor inde est.Compare Give your genius a chance. Let us gather our sweets! Our life is our own today, tomorrow you will be a dust, a shade, a tale that is told. Live mindful of death, the hour flies, the word that I speak is so much taken from it.
Ille potens sui laetusque deget, cui licet in diem dixisse "vixi: cras vel atra nube polum pater occupato vel sole puro; non tamen irritum, quodcumque retro est, efficiet, neque diffinget infectumque reddet, quod fugies semel hora vixit."Compare He will through life be master of himself and a happy man who from day to day can have said, "I have lived: tomorrow the Sire may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine; he will not undo aught that is left behind me, nor change or make as though it had not been aught that the hour, fast as it flies, has once brought."
Unusque hora quadringenti opus annus, qui Alba sto, exitium ac ruina do.Compare And in one hour he gave to destruction and ruin the labour of four hundred years, during which Alba had stood.
Declension table for hōra
Cactus2000
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nom. | hōra | hōrae |
| Gen. | hōrae / -āī | hōrārum |
| Dat. | hōrae | hōrīs |
| Acc. | hōram | hōrās |
| Abl. | hōrā | hōrīs |
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 64.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 803.
- Word frequencies
- Christopher Francese, "Latin Core Vocabulary," Dickinson College Commentaries, last modified 2014, http://dcc.dickinson.edu.
- Paul B. Diederich, The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings, PhD diss., (Columbia University, 1939).
Bibliography
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Crystal, David. A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. 6th ed. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing, 2008.
Delatte, Louis, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard. Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language]. Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège (L.A.S.L.A.), 1981.
Diederich, Paul B. The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings. PhD diss., Columbia University, 1939.
Francese, Christopher. "Latin Core Vocabulary." Dickinson College Commentaries. Last modified 2014. http://dcc.dickinson.edu/latin-vocabulary-list.
Gildersleeve, Basil L., and Gonzales Lodge. Gildersleeve's Latin Grammar: Third Edition, Revised, and Enlarged. 3rd ed. London, England: Macmillan and Co., 1903.
Glare, Peter G.W. Oxford Latin Dictionary. Vols. 1-8. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1982.
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Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "hōra, hōrae (n.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed December 21, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/hora-horae.
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Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 64.hōra, hōrae on page 64
