Noun: ora
Gender: f
Sample Sentences
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[…] de pues enbio el palomo ⁊ ueno a ora de uieſperas aduxo ramo de olẏua cõ ſus fojas uerdes en su boca ([…] and then he sent out the dove, and it came in the evening with an olive branch with green leaves in its beak.) [c. 1200, Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, page f. 37r. col. 2.:]
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Myo çid Ruy diaz el que en buẽ ora çinxo eſpada
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My Cid, Ruy Díaz, who at a good time he girded himself with a sword (common epithet of the Cid) [between 1140 and 1207, Anonymous (or Per Abbat), Cantar de mío Cid 58]
Nouns inflected like ora
semana,
sennal,
sangre,
sangne,
siesta,
siella,
çanahoria,
companna,
yantar,
pergamino,
fazienda,
jargonça,
obscuridat,
deuinança,
persona,
culuebra,
grossura,
alcarchofa,
mercadura,
berguença, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Latin hōra (“hour”), from Ancient Greek ὥρα (hṓra, “time, season, year”), from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₁- (“year, season”). See: Latin Nouns '
hōra', Latin Nouns '
hōra', Ancient Greek Nouns '
ὥρα'.
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