“hour” in Latin

hora (both as the twenty-fourth part of a day and as an indefinite portion of time): horae spatium (the definite space of one hour): horae momentum (the short space of an hour, considered as the space within which something happens). Half an hour, semihora: an hour and a half, sesquihora: three quarters of an hour, dodrans horae (Plin., 2, 14, 11): the twenty-fourth part of an hour, semuncia horae (ib.): in an hour, in hora: in a single hour, in hora una (Plaut.): above an hour, more than an hour, hora amplius or horam amplius (e.g., hora or horam amplius... jam moliebantur, Cic., Verr., 4, 43, 95, where Zumpt reads hora, Orell., horam: ☞ Zumpt’s note, who shows that both forms are allowable): an hour before, etc., hora ante, quara, etc.: in or within three hours, intra tres horas; tribus horis: in the short space of an hour, horae momento: in a few hours, brevi horarum momento (Justinus, 2, 14); paucis momentis (in a short space of time; e.g., multa natura aut affingit, aut mutat, etc., Cic.): in a very few hours, paucis admodum horis: three hours (long), tres horas; per tres horas: for several hours, per aliquot horarum spatia: from hour to hour, in horas: every hour; [Vid: HOURLY]: from this very hour, inde ab hoc temporis momento: to have hardly four hours start of anybody, vix quatuor horarum spatio antecedere (i. e., to be four hours’ march before him, Caes.): at or to the hour (the fixed hour), ad horam: every hour, omni tempore: up to this hour, adhuc (☞ not hucusque, which never relates to time). In dating his letters he always added the hour at which they were finished, ad omnes epistolas horarum momenta, quibus datae significarentur, addebat: in the last years of his life, Maecenas never got an hour’s sleep, Maecenati triennio supremo nullo horae momento contigit somnus: to sleep for several hours together, plures horas et eas continuas dormire (after Suet., Oct., 78): hardly to utter a word an hour, horis decem verba novem dicere (Martisalis, 8, 7): day and hour, tempus et dies: the hour of anybody’s birth, hora natalis (Hor., Od., 2, 17, 18), or hora qua aliquis gignitur or genitus est (after Justinus, 37, 2, 2; both of the hour of a child’s birth); tempus pariendi (with reference to the mother): anybody’s last hour, hora novissima or suprema: in his last hours, eo ipso die, quo e vita excessit: leisure hours, otium: tempus otiosum (when we have no business on our hands), tempus subsecivum (the time one gets or steals, as it were, from one’s business or studies): to steal an hour or two from one’s studies, aliquid subsecivi temporis studiis suis subtrahere: to grant a few hours’ delay, dieculam addere (Ter., Andr., 5, 2, 27): lost hours, horae perditae (after Plin., Ep., 3, 5, 16, poteras has horas non perdere).

The Hours (goddesses), Horae.