Dictionary formhora, horae(feminine)
Translation
hour; time, season
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Grammar
Cases
| Case | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominativethe subject | hora | horae |
| Vocativecalling someone: O ... | hora | horae |
| Accusativethe direct object; after ad, in (into), per | horam | horas |
| Genitiveof | horae | horarum |
| Dativeto, for | horae | horis |
| Ablativeby, with, from; after a, ab, cum, de, e, ex, in (in), sine | hora | horis |
Examples
sexta .
The sixth hour had already come.
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We shall wait one hour.
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The hours of the night are long.
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At that hour the king died.
pugnaverunt.
They fought for many hours.
Hora, horae is feminine, first declension, borrowed from Greek. The time it names is not ours. A Roman hour was one twelfth of the daylight, so it stretched in June and shrank in December, and only at the equinoxes did it run to sixty minutes. Hora sexta is therefore always noon and never six o'clock, which is worth remembering before you translate a battle's timings.
In the church corpus the horae are the canonical hours, the fixed points of the daily office, and a book of hours is a layman's version of it. Latin has no separate word for "o'clock": you say the number and let hora carry it. Italian ora, French heure, Spanish hora and English hour all descend from it.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 4, lesson 10: hora, singuli, error and 10 more words.