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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