houre

English

Noun

houre (plural houres)

1. Obsolete spelling of hour
   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :

     You come moſt carefully vpon your houre,

Finnish

Etymology

houria +‎ -e

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhou̯reˣ/,
• Rhymes: -oure
• Syllabification^(key): hou‧re

Noun

houre

1. raving (wild or incoherent speech)

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

• hourailla
• hourailu
• houretila
• kuumehoure

Further reading

• “houre”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

Anagrams

• rouhe

Middle English

Alternative forms

• hour, our, oure, howr, howre, awyr, ower

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman houre, from Latin hōra, from Ancient Greek ὥρα (hṓra).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈuːr(ə)/
• (Late ME) IPA^(key):

Noun

houre (plural houres)

1. hour (a 60-minute period which the day has 24 of)
2. A time, occasion, or moment
3. A canonical hour or tide.
4. 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 2018-04-23.

Etymology 2

From Old English ure.

Determiner

houre

1. Alternative form of oure

References

• “our(e, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 11 May 2018.

Etymology 3

From Old English hōre.

Noun

houre

1. Alternative form of hore (“whore”)

Old French

Noun

houre oblique singular, f (oblique plural houres, nominative singular houre, nominative plural houres)

1. hour (unit of time)
2. time; moment to do something
   • c. 1170, Wace, Le Roman de Rou:

     A l'hore de disner, a l'ostex repaira

     At dinnertime, he went back to his lodgings

Descendants

• → English: hour
• French: heure