hour
/ˈaʊə/OW-ur
/ˈaʊɚ/OW-ur
Meaninga time of day
Common meaning: a sixtieth part of a day
- houra season; an hour of the dayLiddell & Scott, Greek-English Lexicon (1883), p. 1767 · scan
Journey through time
- Greekὥρα‘a season’
- Latinhora
- Frenchhore
- Middle Englishhouresource
- Englishmeaning shiftsa season → a sixtieth part of a dayhour‘a sixtieth part of a day’ · today
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
- No UK recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-GB voice.
- US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
- No US recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-US voice.
Origin: Built on Greek ὥρα ‘a season; an hour of the day’.
Roots
- ὥρα Greek “a season; an hour of the day”
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