English
horary
Horary comes from Latin hōra ‘hour’, from Ancient Greek ὥρᾱ ‘time, season, year’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *yóh₁r̥.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*yóh₁r̥‘year’reconstructed
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEὥρᾱhṓrā‘time, season, year’
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEhōra‘hour’
- Medieval Latinc. 600–1500hōrārius
- Englishearliest quotation 1650horary
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*yóh₁r̥‘year’reconstructed
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEὥρᾱhṓrā‘time, season, year’
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEhōra‘hour’
- Medieval Latinc. 600–1500hōrārius
- Englishearliest quotation 1650horary
Earliest quotation: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […]: “horary, or soon decaying, fruits of summer”.
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁- ‘to throw’
project, disease, object, ease, jet, adjacent, injection, jess, inject, conjecture, catheter, gist, trajectory, ejection, jetty, abject, eject, ejaculation, enema, ejaculate, jettison, jut, subjection, iambic, interject, joist, jetsam, 42 more
through Proto-Indo-European *yóh₁r̥ ‘year’
through Latin hōra ‘hour’
Today it means
adj Pertaining to an hour or hours.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *yóh₁r̥ / horary