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Definitions and meaning of ora

ora

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɔːɹə

Etymology 1

Noun

ora

  1. plural of os; mouths or openings, especially of the cervix.

Etymology 2

Old English [Term?].

Noun

ora (plural oras)

  1. A unit of money among the Anglo-Saxons.

Anagrams

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

Albanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɔˈɾa/

Noun

ora f

  1. definite singular of orë

Aragonese

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

ora f (plural oras)

  1. hour

References

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

Azerbaijani

Etymology

Cognate with Turkish ora.

Pronunciation

Adverb

ora

  1. there, thither, to that place

Derived terms

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

Antonyms

  • bura

Noun

ora

  1. that place

Declension

Blagar

Noun

ora

  1. tail

References

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

Catalan

Etymology 1

From Latin aura (“breeze”). Doublet of aura.

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /ˈɔ.ɾə/
  • (Valencian) IPA(key): /ˈɔ.ɾa/

Noun

ora f (plural ores)

  1. breeze
  2. calm weather
Derived terms
  • oratge
  • orejar

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /ˈo.ɾə/
  • (Valencian) IPA(key): /ˈo.ɾa/

Verb

ora

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

Further reading

  • “ora” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Corsican

Etymology

From Latin hōra.

Noun

ora f (plural ori)

  1. hour
  2. time

Esperanto

Etymology

From oro (“gold”) +‎ -a (adjectival suffix).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈora]
  • Rhymes: -ora
  • Hyphenation: o‧ra

Adjective

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

  1. golden

Related terms

  • oro

Finnish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈorɑ/, [ˈo̞rɑ]
  • Rhymes: -orɑ
  • Syllabification: o‧ra

Noun

ora

  1. thorn

Declension

Synonyms

  • oka
  • oras

Compounds

  • oralehti
  • orapaatsama
  • orapihlaja
  • oratuomi
  • poltinora

Anagrams

  • aro

Galician

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɔɾɐ]

Adverb

ora

  1. now
    Synonym: agora

Conjunction

ora … ora

  1. sometimes … sometimes

Interjection

ora!

  1. stop!

Verb

ora

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

References

  • “ora” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
  • “ora” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
  • “ora” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “ora” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Interlingua

Etymology

From Italian ora

Adverb

ora

  1. now
    Synonym: nunc

Italian

Etymology 1

From Latin hōra (“hour”), from ὥρα (hṓra, “hour”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈo.ra/
  • Rhymes: -ora
  • Hyphenation: ó‧ra

Alternative forms

  • hora (obsolete)

Noun

ora f (plural ore)

  1. hour
  2. time (of day); hour
Derived terms
Related terms
  • allora
See also
  • minuto
  • secondo

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈo.ra/
  • Rhymes: -ora
  • Hyphenation: ó‧ra

Adverb

ora

  2. now
    Synonym: adesso
Derived terms

Conjunction

ora

  1. and yet

Conjunction

ora... ora...

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

Etymology 3

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɔ.ra/
  • Rhymes: -ɔra
  • Hyphenation: ò‧ra

Noun

ora f (plural ore)

  1. (poetic, regional) blow, breeze
    Synonyms: aura, brezza, venticello

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɔ.ra/
  • Rhymes: -ɔra
  • Hyphenation: ò‧ra

Verb

ora

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

Further reading

  • 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

Anagrams

  • -aro, aro, arò

Javanese

Etymology

From *wola, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wada. Compare Aklanon waea'.

Adverb

ora

  1. not

Particle

ora

  1. no

Kapingamarangi

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Verb

ora

  1. To live.

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin hōra.

Noun

ora f (plural ores)

  1. hour

Synonyms

  • ëura

Preposition

ora

  1. except

Latin

Etymology 1

Unknown; possibly related to Hittite [script needed] (er-ḫa-aš /erḫaš/, “line, boundary”), Sanskrit आरे (āré, “far”), perhaps all from Proto-Indo-European *h₁erh₂- (“border, line”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈoː.ra/, [ˈoːrä]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈo.ra/, [ˈɔːrä]

Noun

ōra f (genitive ōrae); first declension

  1. border, rim, frontier, limit, edge
  2. sea coast
  3. region, country
Declension

First-declension noun.

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

Etymology 2

Inflected form of ōs (“mouth”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈoː.ra/, [ˈoːrä]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈo.ra/, [ˈɔːrä]

Noun

ōra

  1. nominative plural of ōs
  2. accusative plural of ōs
  3. vocative plural of ōs

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈoː.raː/, [ˈoːräː]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈo.ra/, [ˈɔːrä]

Verb

ōrā

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of ōrō

References

  • 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[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • 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

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *ola, from Proto-Oceanic, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wada (“to exist”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɔ.ɾa/

Verb

ora

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

Noun

ora

  1. life
  2. existence

Nias

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *haʀəzan.

Noun

ora

  1. ladder
  2. stairs

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

  • oren

Noun

ora f sg

  1. definite feminine singular of or

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

  • oren

Noun

ora f sg

  1. definite feminine singular of or

Occitan

Alternative forms

  • ouro (Mistralian)

Etymology

From Latin hōra (“hour”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [uro]

Noun

ora f (plural oras)

  1. hour (period of 60 minutes)
  2. time (of day), hour

Derived terms

See also

  • minuta
  • segonda

Old Dutch

Etymology

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

Noun

ōra n

  1. ear

Descendants

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

Further reading

  • “ōra”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old English

Etymology

A derivate of ear (“earth”)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈoː.rɑ/

Noun

ōra m

  1. ore, unwrought metal; brass
  2. border, bank, shore

Declension

Related terms

  • ore

Old High German

Etymology

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-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈoː.ra/

Noun

ōra n

  1. ear (organ of hearing)

Declension

Descendants

  • 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)

References

  1. Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer, Second Edition

Old Saxon

Etymology

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-.

Noun

ōra n

  1. ear

Descendants

  • Middle Low German: ôre
    • Low German: Ohr
      • Dutch Low Saxon: oor
      • German Low German: Or, Ur
        Plautdietsch: Oa, Ua

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Portuguese hora and Spanish hora and Kabuverdianu óra.

Noun

ora

  1. time
  2. hour

Pronoun

ora

  1. when

Polish

Pronunciation

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

Verb

ora

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

Usage notes

Standard form: orze

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Homophone: hora

Etymology 1

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

Adverb

ora

  1. now
    Synonyms: agora, já

Conjunction

ora … ora

  1. sometimes … sometimes

Interjection

ora!

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

Derived terms

  • ora bem
  • ora bolas
Alternative forms
  • oras

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

ora

  1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of orar
  2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of orar

Rapa Nui

Etymology

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

Verb

ora

  1. live

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈo.ra/

Noun

ora

  1. definite nominative/accusative singular of oră

Romansch

Alternative forms

  • (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) aura

Etymology

From Latin aura.

Noun

ora f

  1. (Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) weather

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈoɾa/, [ˈo.ɾa]

Verb

ora

  1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of orar.
  2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of orar.
  3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of orar.

Conjunction

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.
    • 1877, Benito Pérez Galdós, Gloria

References

“ora” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Further reading

  • “ora” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Tahitian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *ola.

Verb

ora

  1. live

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish اورا‎, equivalent to o (“that”) +‎ -ra.

Pronoun

ora

  1. there

Source: wiktionary.org
  • OS, (Latin) a bone.
    (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)