houre
التعريفات والمعاني
== English ==
=== Noun ===
houre (plural houres)
Obsolete spelling of hour.
== Finnish ==
=== Etymology ===
houria + -e
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /ˈhou̯reˣ/, [ˈho̞u̯re̞(ʔ)]
Rhymes: -oure
Syllabification(key): hou‧re
Hyphenation(key): hou‧re
=== Noun ===
houre
raving (wild or incoherent speech)
==== Declension ====
==== Derived terms ====
==== Related terms ====
hourailla
hourailu
=== Further reading ===
“houre”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023
=== Anagrams ===
rouhe
== Middle English ==
=== Alternative forms ===
hour, our, oure, howr, howre, ower
awyr (c.1475)
=== Etymology 1 ===
From Anglo-Norman houre, from Latin hōra, from Ancient Greek ὥρα (hṓra).
==== Pronunciation ====
IPA(key): /ˈuːr(ə)/
==== Noun ====
houre (plural houres)
hour (a 60-minute period which the day has 24 of)
A time, occasion, or moment
A canonical hour or tide.
A divine office.
===== Descendants =====
English: hour (see there for further descendants)
Northumbrian: oor
Scots: oor
===== References =====
“hǒure, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 23 April 2018.
=== Etymology 2 ===
==== Determiner ====
houre
alternative form of oure
=== Etymology 3 ===
==== Noun ====
houre
alternative form of hore (“whore”)
== Old French ==
=== Alternative forms ===
hore (early)
heure (late)
eure, heur, ore, oure, ure
=== Etymology ===
From Latin hōra (“hour”), from Ancient Greek ὥρα (hṓra, “time, season, year”), from Proto-Indo-European *yóh₁r̥ (“year, season”).
=== Noun ===
houre oblique singular, f (oblique plural houres, nominative singular houre, nominative plural houres)
hour (unit of time)
time; moment to do something
==== Descendants ====