🇮🇹 Italian

ora

feminine

l' ora

hour

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ora
/ˈloːra/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say ora in Italian?

IPA
/ˈloːra/

How do you pronounce ora in Italian?

ora is pronounced /ˈloːra/ in Italian.

Example sentences

La ora d'inizio della riunione è stata posticipata di trenta minuti.

The starting time of the meeting was postponed by thirty minutes.

L'ora scorsa ho ricevuto una telefonata importante.

The past hour I received an important phone call.

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Why is it feminine?

Ora (hour) is feminine because it derives from Latin "hora," which was feminine in the Latin second declension ending in -a, a pattern that typically produced feminine nouns when inherited by Romance languages like Italian. This Latin grammatical gender was preserved directly in Italian.

What is the Italian word for hour?

The Italian word for hour is l' ora — feminine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchheurel'feminine
🇪🇸 Spanishhoralafeminine
🇵🇹 Portuguesehoraafeminine

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