ὥρα

See also: Ὥρα, ώρα, and ὤρα

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ὥρη (hṓrē) — Ionic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *yóh₁r̥ (“year, season”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hɔ̌ː.raː/ → /ˈo.ra/ → /ˈo.ra/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hɔ̌ː.raː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈ(h)o.ra/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ra/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ra/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ra/

Noun

ὥρᾱ • (hṓrā) f (genitive ὥρᾱς); first declension

1. any defined period of time
2. season
3. (in the plural) climate
4. year
5. time of day
6. hour
7. some specific time: right time, time for something
8. time of life: youth

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ὥρᾱ; τῆς ὥρᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ὥρᾱ hē hṓrā	τὼ ὥρᾱ tṑ hṓrā	αἱ ὧραι hai hôrai
Genitive	τῆς ὥρᾱς tês hṓrās	τοῖν ὥραιν toîn hṓrain	τῶν ὡρῶν tôn hōrôn
Dative	τῇ ὥρᾳ têi hṓrāi	τοῖν ὥραιν toîn hṓrain	ταῖς ὥραις taîs hṓrais
Accusative	τὴν ὥρᾱν tḕn hṓrān	τὼ ὥρᾱ tṑ hṓrā	τᾱ̀ς ὥρᾱς tā̀s hṓrās
Vocative	ὥρᾱ hṓrā	ὥρᾱ hṓrā	ὧραι hôrai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ὡρολογέω (hōrologéō)
• ὡροσκοπέω (hōroskopéō)

Descendants

• Greek: ώρα (óra)
• Pontic Greek: ώρα (óra)
  • → Laz: ორა (ora)
• Tsakonian: ούρα (oúra)
• → Latin: hōra (see there for further descendants)
• → Sanskrit: होरा (horā) (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• “ὥρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὥρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ὥρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• “ὥρα”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G5610 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • adolescence idem, page 13.
  • attract idem, page 51.
  • beauty idem, page 68.
  • bloom idem, page 84.
  • due idem, page 255.
  • flower idem, page 329.
  • heyday idem, page 398.
  • high time idem, page 399.
  • hour idem, page 408.
  • life idem, page 489.
  • manhood idem, page 511.
  • mature idem, page 518.
  • maturity idem, page 518.
  • occasion idem, page 568.
  • prime idem, page 640.
  • regard idem, page 686.
  • season idem, page 746.
  • spring idem, page 805.
  • time idem, page 875.
  • turn idem, page 901.
  • weather idem, page 971.
  • womanhood idem, page 986.
  • youth idem, page 997.