Noun: hora
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | hora |
| Plural f | horas |
Sample Sentences
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Há vinte e quatro horas num dia. (There are twenty-four hours in a day.)
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Ele estava aqui há uma hora. (He was here one hour ago.)
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A alguma hora, eu passo aí. (At some time, I’ll hop over there.)
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Que horas são? (What time is it?)
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É hora de dar tchau. (It's time to say goodbye.)
Nouns inflected like hora
palestra,
indumentária,
metafísica,
histerectomia,
cumplicidade,
serifa,
sestra,
secura,
semana,
estrebaria,
estreiteza,
savana,
saroba,
sapata,
safena,
safira,
militança,
sacada,
sacola,
sanita, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Old Galician-Portuguese ora, from Latin hōra (“hour”), from Ancient Greek ὥρα (hṓra, “time, season, year”), from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₁- (“year, season”). Doublet of ora.
2. Cognate with Galician, Spanish, and Catalan hora, Occitan and Italian ora, French heure and Romanian oară. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
ora', Latin Nouns '
hōra', Ancient Greek Nouns '
ὥρα', French Nouns '
heure', Romanian Nouns '
oară'.
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