Etymograph

English

horary

Horary comes from Latin hōra ‘hour’, from Ancient Greek ὥρᾱ ‘time, season, year’, and perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁- ‘to throw’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*(H)yeh₁-1‘to throw’uncertain
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*yóh₁r̥1‘year’reconstructed
  3. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEὥρᾱ1hṓrā‘time, season, year’
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEhōra2‘hour’
  5. Medieval Latinc. 600–1500hōrārius2
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1650horary2

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Latin hora
  2. 2 Wiktionary, English horary
  3. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […]: “horary, or soon decaying, fruits of summer”.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*(H)yeh₁-Wiktionary, Latin hora‘to throw’uncertain
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*yóh₁r̥Wiktionary, Latin hora‘year’reconstructed
  3. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEὥρᾱWiktionary, Latin horahṓrā‘time, season, year’
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEhōraWiktionary, English horary‘hour’
  5. Medieval Latinc. 600–1500hōrāriusWiktionary, English horary
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1650horaryWiktionary, English horary. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 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, 41 more

through Proto-Indo-European *yóh₁r̥ ‘year’

year, yore, 4 more

through Latin hōra ‘hour’

hour, 2 more

Today it means

adj Pertaining to an hour or hours.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “horary”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entry for Latin hora. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁- / horary

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