oarã

Forms

oarã f (plural ori, definite articulation oara)^[1]

• Plural ori, definite singular oara.^[1][2][3]
• Other spellings: ore in Wiktionary;^[1] OÁRĂ in Papahagi's dictionary;^[4] oáră in Mihăileanu's Romanian-based spelling;^[5] oară in Dalametra;^[6] oarâ in DIARO.^[7]

Etymology

It is inherited from Latin hōra (“hour”).^[4][3][1] The word is shared with Romanian oară and Megleno-Romanian oară (“hour”);^[8][9] the Romance languages have Italian ora, French heure, Spanish hora and Vegliote yaura.^[10][8] Candrea–Densusianu compare the sense “time, occasion” with Albanian herë (“time, occasion”) and with Old Italian ora.^[9] Latin hōra is a loan from Ancient Greek ὥρα (hṓra, “season, year, time of day, hour”),^[11][12] which Beekes traces to Proto-Indo-European *Hioh₁-r- (“year”), the source also of Gothic 𐌾𐌴𐍂 (jēr, “year”).^[12]

Earliest recorded meaning

Pascu quotes from Boiagi's grammar of 1813 the phrases or-ori “from time to time” and oară-di-oară “often”.^[3]

Semantic evolution

The Latin word meant a twelfth part of the day, an hour.^[11] Aromanian kept “hour” and took from it “clock, watch” and “time, moment”.^[4][2] As in Romanian oară, it also counts occurrences, “time” as in “the first time”, and its plural ori forms the multiplicatives (di doauă ori “twice”).^[7][8] Papahagi lists further senses: “duration”, “sometimes”, “never” (in negative clauses), “the last moment” and “attention”.^[4] Bag oarã “I pay attention” and escu cu oara “to be moody, changeable” are set phrases.^[2][6] Mihăileanu records the curse s' hibă oara lae “may his hour be black”.^[5]

Timeline

• 1813 – or-ori “from time to time” and oară-di-oară “often” in Boiagi's grammar, as cited by Pascu.^[3]
• 1901 – oáră “hour, time” in Mihăileanu's dictionary.^[5]
• 1905 – oară “hour” and tu oară “at once” in Papahagi's glossary to his folk tales.^[13]
• 1906 – oară “hour; clock” in Dalametra's dictionary.^[6]

Meanings

Noun

1. An hour.^[14][4][1]
2. A clock or watch.^[2][4][6]
3. The time of day shown by a clock.^[2][15]
4. A length of time, duration; a period.^[2][4]
5. A moment, an instant.^[2][4]
6. A time, an occasion (the first time, the second time).^[2][7][1]

Related words

• Romanian oară

References

1. ^ a b c d e f Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f g h Cunia, Tiberius (2008), Dictsiunar a limbãljei armãneascã, Editsii Timpurarã (after T. Papahagi, Ș. Mihăileanu and I. Dalametra; online at dixionline.net), p. 770
3. ^ a b c d Pascu, Giorge (1925), Dictionnaire étymologique macédoroumain, 2 vols. (I: Les éléments latins et romans; II: Les éléments grecs, turcs, slaves, albanais, germaniques, magyars, néologismes, créations immédiates, obscurs), Iași: Cultura Națională, p. 1, 134
4. ^ a b c d e f g h Papahagi, Tache (1974), Dicționarul dialectului aromân, general și etimologic, 2nd augmented ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, p. 930
5. ^ a b c Mihăileanu, Ștefan (1901), Dicționar macedo-român, București, p. 389
6. ^ a b c d Dalametra, I. (1906), Dicționar macedo-român, București: Academia Română, p. 160
7. ^ a b c Caragiu Marioțeanu, Matilda et al. (1997), Dicționar aromân (macedo-vlah) DIARO, A–D, București, p. 349
8. ^ a b c Ciorănescu, Alexandru (1958–1966), Diccionario etimológico rumano, La Laguna: Universidad de La Laguna (Romanian ed.: Dicționarul etimologic al limbii române, București: Saeculum, 2001)
9. ^ a b Candrea, I.-A.; Densusianu, Ov. (1907–1914), Dicționarul etimologic al limbii române: elementele latine (A–Putea), București
10. ^ Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1935), Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, 3rd ed., Heidelberg: Winter
11. ^ a b Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
12. ^ a b Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), Etymological Dictionary of Greek, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 10, Leiden; Boston: Brill
13. ^ Papahagi, Pericle (1905), Basme aromâne și glosar, București: Academia Română, p. 668
14. ^ Cunia, Tiberius (2008), Dictsiunar a limbãljei armãneascã, Editsii Timpurarã (after T. Papahagi, Ș. Mihăileanu and I. Dalametra; online at dixionline.net)
15. ^ Caragiu Marioțeanu, Matilda et al. (1997), Dicționar aromân (macedo-vlah) DIARO, A–D, București, p. 223