a deshora

From Old Galician-Portuguese adesora (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), contraction of a de so hora (“at the very moment”). The semantic evolution, which also happened in Portuguese and Spanish, was due to rebracketing: des- (“dis-”) + hora (“hour”).^[1]

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a deshora

1. (archaic) suddenly

   Synonym: de súpeto

2. untimeously, inopportunely

   Synonyms: inoportunamente, intempestivamente

• hora

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “adesora”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “desora”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “deshora”, 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), “a deshora”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “a deshora”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• a deshoras

From a +‎ deshora.

a deshora

1. untimeously, inopportunely, intempestively
2. suddenly

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