ora

• Rhymes: -ɔːɹə

Unadapted borrowing from Latin.

ora

1. plural of os (“anatomical opening”)

Learned borrowing from Old English ora. Doublet of ore. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

ora (plural oras)

1. (historical) A unit of money among the Anglo-Saxons.

• AOR, AoR, aro, Roa, OAR, ARO, ROA, Rao, oar

• IPA^(key): /ɔˈɾa/

ora f

1. definite singular of orë

Inherited from Latin hōra.

ora f (plural oras)

1. (time) hour (a unit of time of one twenty-fourth of a day (sixty minutes))

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “ora”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

Cognate with Turkish ora.

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ora

1. there, thither, to that place

   Ora getmə. ― Don't go there.

• bura

• ora-bura (“hither and thither”)
• orada (“there”)
• oraya (“thither, to that place”)
• oradan (“thence, from that place”)

ora (definite accusative oranı, plural oralar)

1. that place

ora

1. tail

• Marian Klamer, The Alor-Pantar languages: History and Typology (2017), p. 135

Inherited from Latin aura (“breeze”). Doublet of aura.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈɔ.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈɔ.ɾa]

ora f (plural ores)

1. breeze
2. calm weather

• oratge
• orejar

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈo.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈo.ɾa]

ora

1. inflection of orar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “ora”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Inherited from Latin hōra.

ora f (plural ori)

1. (time) hour (a unit of time of one twenty-fourth of a day (sixty minutes))
2. time

oro (“gold”) +‎ -a.

• IPA^(key): /ˈora/

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• Rhymes: -ora
• Hyphenation: o‧ra

ora (accusative singular oran, plural oraj, accusative plural orajn)

1. golden

• oro

From Proto-Finnic *ora, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *ora (compare Inari Sami oari, Erzya уро (uro), Moksha ура (ura) and Hungarian ár), borrowed from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hā́raH (compare Sanskrit आरा (ā́rā)),^[1] from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ólos (compare Old Norse alr, English awl).

• IPA^(key): /ˈorɑ/, [ˈo̞rɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -orɑ
• Syllabification^(key): o‧ra
• Hyphenation^(key): ora

ora

1. thorn (sharp protective spine of a plant)

   Synonyms: oas, oka, ota

2. pendant, tooth-like or spine-like spore producing projections in the basidiocarps of the hydnoid fungi (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)

• “ora”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

• aro

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese ora, a semi-learned borrowing from Latin hōra (“hour”). Doublet of hora.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɔɾɐ]

ora

1. now

   Synonym: agora

ora … ora

1. sometimes … sometimes

   Ora rin, ora choran ― Sometimes they laugh, others they cry

ora!

1. stop!

ora

1. inflection of orar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “ora”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “ora”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “ora”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “ora”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Borrowed from Italian ora.

ora

1. now

   Synonym: nunc

Inherited from Latin hōra (“hour”), from Ancient Greek ὥρα (hṓra, “hour”).

• hora (obsolete)

• IPA^(key): /ˈo.ra/

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• Rhymes: -ora
• Hyphenation: ó‧ra

ora f (plural ore)

1. (time) hour (a unit of time of one twenty-fourth of a day (sixty minutes))
2. time (of day); hour

   che ora è? ― what time is it?

• allora

• minuto
• secondo

Derived from Latin hōrā, ablative case of hōra (“hour”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈo.ra/

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• Rhymes: -ora
• Hyphenation: ó‧ra

ora

2. now

   Synonym: adesso

   Sei libero ora? ― Are you free now?

ora

1. and yet

ora… ora…

1. first... then...; one moment... the next..

   ora mi ama ora mi odia ― one moment she loves me, the next she hates me

Inherited from Latin aura, from Ancient Greek αὔρα (aúra, “breeze, soft wind”). Doublet of the borrowing aura.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.ra/

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• Rhymes: -ɔra
• Hyphenation: ò‧ra

ora f (plural ore)

1. (poetic, regional) blow, breeze

   Synonyms: aura, brezza, venticello

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.ra/

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• Rhymes: -ɔra
• Hyphenation: ò‧ra

ora

1. inflection of orare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• ora in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• ora in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
• ora in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
• ora in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
• ora in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• -aro, aro, arò

ora

1. Rōmaji transcription of おら

ora

1. romanization of ꦲꦺꦴꦫ

ora

1. romanization of ꦲꦺꦴꦫ

Inherited from Proto-Oceanic [Term?], from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wada.

ora

1. To live.

Inherited from Latin hōra.

ora f (plural ores)

1. (time) hour (a unit of time of one twenty-fourth of a day (sixty minutes))

• ëura

ora

1. except

• hora

Inherited from Old Spanish ora, hora, from Latin hōra (“hour”).

ora f (Hebrew spelling אורה)^[1]

1. (time) hour (a unit of time of one twenty-fourth of a day (sixty minutes))
   • 1999, David M. Bunis, Moshé Cazés, edited by David M. Bunis, Voices from Jewish Salonika‎^[4], Misgav Yerushalayim, →ISBN, page 415:

     En la ora mas apretada i eskura, kwando la partida parese pyedrida, los dados de el destino se aboltan en mwestra favor, i kwando ya parese ke mos deshan zulá, salimos empyés komo los gatos ke los asegien i se suven en algún árvol ande no lo pweden alkansar.

     In the most stressful and darkest hour, when the party appears lost, destiny's gifts turn up in our favour, and when it appears that it is leaving us in destitution, we leave on foot like the cats who chase them and they climb up some tree where they can't reach someone.

2. watch (timepiece)

   Synonym: saat

• agora

Unknown; possibly related to Hittite 𒅕𒄩𒀸 (er-ḫa-aš /⁠erḫaš⁠/, “line, boundary”), Latvian āra, perhaps all from Proto-Indo-European *h₁erh₂- (“border, line”).^[1][2]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈoː.ra]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɔː.ra]

ōra f (genitive ōrae); first declension

1. border, rim, frontier, limit, edge
2. coast, seacoast, coastline, shoreline
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.538:

     “Hūc paucī vestrīs adnāvimus ōrīs.”

     “Only we few drifted here to your seacoasts.”
     (Ilioneus explains how the Trojan ships came to Carthage.)

3. region, country

First-declension noun.

• (border, limit, edge): fīnis, labrum, limbus, līmes, margō
• (sea coast): acta, lītus

Inflected form of ōs (“mouth”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈoː.ra]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɔː.ra]

ōra

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of ōs

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈoː.raː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɔː.ra]

ōrā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of ōrō

• “ora”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ora”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "ora", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• ora in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[5], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to hug the coast: oram legere (Liv. 21. 51)
    
  • to land (of ships): appelli (ad oram) (Att. 13. 21)
    
  • (ambiguous) to draw every one's eyes upon one: omnium oculos (et ora) ad se convertere
    
  • (ambiguous) to be in every one's mouth: per omnium ora ferri
    
  • (ambiguous) to be a subject for gossip: in ora vulgi abire
    
  • (ambiguous) the storm drives some one on an unknown coast: procella (tempestas) aliquem ex alto ad ignotas terras (oras) defert
    
• “ora”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ora”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

• óra, hora

Derived from Portuguese hora.

ora (plural ora-ora)

1. hour, o'clock

   Cinco-óra, assí ― Around five o'clock

2. (countable) occasion, time

   têm ora ― there are times; sometimes

3. (uncountable) time

   Desde qui ora? ― Since when? (literally, “Since what time?”)

   unchinho-unchinho ora ― a little time

4. (by extension) it's time to (+ verb)

• têm ora may be a calque of Cantonese 有時 / 有时 (jau⁵ si⁴).

• chegâ ora (“at the right time”)
• tudo-óra (“always”)

• quelóra

• https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm

Inherited from Proto-Polynesian *ola, from Proto-Oceanic, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wada (“to exist”). Cognate with Malay ada (“to have, to exist, to be”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.ɾa/

ora

1. to exist
2. to be alive, well, safe, cured, recovered, healthy
3. to survive

• oraora
• whakaora

ora

1. life
2. existence

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *haʀəzan.

ora

1. ladder
2. stairs

• oren m sg

ora f sg

1. definite feminine singular of or

• oren m sg

ora f sg

1. definite feminine singular of or

• ouro (Mistralian)

Inherited from Latin hōra (“hour”).

• IPA^(key): [uro]

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ora f (plural oras)

1. (time) hour (a unit of time of one twenty-fourth of a day (sixty minutes))
2. time (of day), hour

   Quina ora es?

   What time is it?

• minuta
• segonda

Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *auʀā, from the voiced Verner alternant of Proto-Germanic *ausô, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ows-.

ōra n

1. ear

• Middle Dutch: ôre
  • Dutch: oor
    • Afrikaans: oor
    • Jersey Dutch: ôr
    • Negerhollands: oor, hoor, ho
  • Limburgish: oear

• “ōra”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

• IPA^(key): /ˈoː.rɑ/

Uncertain; possibly from ār (“ore, brass, copper”) and influenced by Proto-West Germanic *ōrikalk (“copper ore, brass”) (whence Old High German ōrkalk), borrowed from Latin orichalcum (“copper ore, brass”). Perhaps compare Low German Ur, Uurt, Uhr, Urt (“compact, reddish, iron-bearing soil”), Early Modern Dutch oor, oore (“mine; lead ore; vein bearing lead and silver”).^[1]

ōra m

1. ore, unwrought metal
2. brass

Weak:

• ore

• Middle English: ore, oure, or, oor, nore, noure (merged with ār)
  • English: ore
  • Scots: ure, uir
• → English: ora (learned)

Borrowed from Latin ōra (“shore”).

ōra m

2. shore, edge
3. hill^[2]

Weak:

• Hawkins, Jillian (2020) “Words and Swords: People and Power along the Solent in the 5th Century”, in Langlands, Alexander James, Lavelle, Ryan, editors, The Land of the English Kin: Studies in Wessex and Anglo-Saxon England in Honour of Professor Barbara Yorke (Brill's Series on the Early Middle Ages; 26), →DOI, pages 50–69

• hora

Inherited from Latin hōra (“hour”), from Ancient Greek ὥρα (hṓra, “time, season, year”), from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₁- (“year, season”).

ora

1. now
   • 13th century, João Garcia de Guilhade, Cancioneiro da Ajuda‎^[6], page A 229: Amigos, non poss'eu negar:

     [O]s ollos uerdes que eu ui / me façen ora andar aſſi.

     The green eyes which I have seen / have made me now be like this.

ora … ora

1. sometimes … sometimes
   • c. 14th–15th century, Francisco de Melgaço, transl., Vida de Sam Bernardo, book II, Alcobaça, translation of Vita prima Bernardi by William of St-Thierry, page 45r; republished as Lawrence A. Sharpe, editor, The Old Portuguese Vida de Sam Bernardo, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1971, →ISBN, page 109:

     Esta posuya o demonio o quall ora falava linguoa italiana ora spanhol.

     She was possessed by the devil, who would sometimes speak the Italian language, sometimes the Iberian one.

ora f

1. (time) hour (a unit of time of one twenty-fourth of a day (sixty minutes))
   • 1402, A. López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 177:

     Iten declaro por esta ora en que jazo que segun meu entendemento que he meu fillo Gonzalo, o que cria Juan Oubel, neto de Basco do Vilar he que aquela ora que dormin con sua may segun meu entendimentto que la ficou preñe de min deste mozo.

     As well, I declare now as I lie that, according to my understanding, Gonzalo, who is being raised by Juan Oubel, grandson of Vasco do Vilar, is my son; and that that time that I slept with his mother I think she got pregnant from me with this kid

2. (religion) service

• Galician: ora
• Portuguese: ora

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “ora”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

From the voiced Verner alternant of Proto-Germanic *ausô, whence also Old English ēare and English ear, Old Norse eyra (“ear”), Old Dutch ōra (“ear”), Old Saxon ōra (“ear”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ows-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈoː.ra/

ōra n

1. ear (organ of hearing)

• Middle High German: ore
  • Alemannic German: Oor
  • Bavarian: Oar
  • Central Franconian: Uhr, Ohr
    • Hunsrik: Oher
    • Luxembourgish: Ouer
  • German: Ohr
  • Rhine Franconian:

    Pennsylvania German: Ohr

  • Vilamovian: ür
  • Yiddish: אויער (oyer)

• Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer, Second Edition

Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *auʀā, from Proto-Germanic *ausô, whence also Old Frisian āre, Old English ēare and English ear, Old Norse eyra (“ear”), Old Dutch ōra (“ear”), Old High German ōra (“ear”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ows-.

ōra n

1. ear

• Middle Low German: ôre
  • Low German: Ohr
    • Dutch Low Saxon: oor
    • German Low German: Ohr, Åhr, Ahr, Or, Ur

      Plautdietsch: Oa, Ua

Köbler, Gerhard (2014) Altsächsisches Wörterbuch‎^[7] (in German), 5th edition

• hora

Inherited from Latin hōra (“hour”), from Ancient Greek ὥρα (hṓra, “time, season, year”), from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₁- (“year, season”).

ora f (plural oras)

1. (time) hour (a unit of time of one twenty-fourth of a day (sixty minutes))
   • c. 1200, Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, page f. 37r. col. 2.:

     […] 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.

2. time (moment)
   • between 1140 and 1207, Anonymous (or Per Abbat), Cantar de mío Cid 58:

     Myo çid Ruy diaz el que en buẽ ora çinxo eſpada

     My Cid, Ruy Díaz, who at a good time he girded himself with a sword (common epithet of the Cid)

• Ladino: hora, ora, אורה
• Spanish: hora

• Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946) “ora”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume II, Chapel Hill, page 370

Inherited from Sanskrit अवर (avara), a comparative formation whose base survives as ava- or o- (“down”).^[1]

ora

1. lower

• orima (“on this side”)

Derived from Portuguese hora and Spanish hora and Kabuverdianu óra.

ora

1. time
2. (time) hour (a unit of time of one twenty-fourth of a day (sixty minutes))

ora

1. when

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.ra/
• Rhymes: -ɔra
• Syllabification: o‧ra

ora

1. (proscribed) third-person singular present of orać

   Synonym: (standard) orze

• Rhymes: -ɔɾɐ
• Homophone: hora
• Hyphenation: o‧ra

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese ora, from Latin hōra (“hour”). Doublet of hora.

ora

1. now

   Synonyms: agora, já

ora … ora

1. sometimes … sometimes

   Ora ele ri, ora chora.

   Sometimes he laughs, others he cries.

ora!

1. duh; obviously (expresses that something is obvious)
2. oh no! (expresses frustration or irritation)

• ora bem
• ora bolas

• oras

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

ora

1. inflection of orar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Inherited from Proto-Polynesian *ola, from Proto-Oceanic [Term?], from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wada.

ora

1. live

• IPA^(key): /ˈo.ra/

ora

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of oră

ora f

1. (Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) aura (“weather”)

Apheresis of ahora (“now”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈoɾa/ [ˈo.ɾa]

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• Rhymes: -oɾa
• Syllabification: o‧ra

ora ... ora ...

1. now (something), now something else; sometimes something, sometimes something else; at times something, at times something else (used to introduce opposing ideas)

   Tomando ora la espada, ora la pluma.

   Taking at times the sword, at times the pen.

   • 1877, Benito Pérez Galdós, Gloria:

     Daba grandes tumbos a babor y estribor, mostrando ora la horrible panza, ora la cubierta en desorden, negra y húmeda, las escotillas, el cajón de la máquina […]

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ora

1. inflection of orar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “ora”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Borrowed from Spanish hora (“hour; time”). Doublet of oras.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈʔoɾa/ [ˈʔoː.ɾɐ]
• Rhymes: -oɾa
• Syllabification: o‧ra

ora (Baybayin spelling ᜂᜇ)

1. hour (only in certain expressions)

   Synonym: oras

• Roa

Inherited from Proto-Polynesian *ola.

ora

1. live

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish اورا. By surface analysis, o (“that”) +‎ -ra.

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ora

1. there

   O durmadan oraya giderdi. ― They would always go there.

   Ora nasıl? ― How is that place?

   Evi orada. ― Their home is there.

   Evi orası. ― Their home is over there.

   Oranın yemeğine bayılıyorum. ― I can't get enough of the food there.

   Kedimiz oradan gelmiştir. ― Our cat comes from there.

   Orayı seviyorum. ― I love that place.

Seldom used in its uninflected form.

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