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Translation

timetable, schedule

Word origin

Built inside Esperanto from horo ('hour') plus -ar-, the suffix for a collection of things. Horo is Latin hora, from Greek hora, a season or a division of the day, which also gives English hour and horoscope.

Origin
Esperanto build
Root
horo + -ar-
English cognates
hour, horoscope

Examples

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The train timetable is on the wall.

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The school's timetable changes every year.

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Look at the timetable before you go to the station.

A collection of hours. That is genuinely what the word says. -- is the suffix for the whole set of something: is a forest from arbo, is a dictionary from , is humanity from homo. Apply it to horo at rank 225 and you get the set of hours, arranged and written down, which is a timetable. English needed a compound of two nouns and a French borrowing (schedule, originally a strip of papyrus) to say the same thing. Esperanto used a suffix you already knew.

It covers everything English splits. A is the train timetable, the school timetable, the opening hours of a shop, a conference programme, and your own day's plan. is to work to a schedule; a is the adjective; senhorara describes the sort of week where nothing starts when it should. Where English distinguishes timetable from schedule from roster, Esperanto lets the context do it.

Do not confuse it with plano. A at 988 is what you intend to do; a is when things happen. A train has a and not a , and a battle has a and not a . The near neighbours are tempo at 98 for time in general and programo at 1,219 for the content rather than the clock.

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This word is part of lesson 59.