A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Hora,-ae (s.f.I), abl. sg. hora: an hour; “a twelfth part of the day between sunrise and sunset; the time (by the clock); (in pl., horae =) a clock; (singular) a particular hour of the day or night; the appointed hour; the duration of an hour; a season of the year; the duration of human life” (Glare); see ‘hourly;’ see ‘time;’

- in horas: from hour to hour, hourly.

- ad horam: at the appointed time, punctually.

- omnibus horis: at all hours, at all times.

- hora lunaris: a twelfth part of the night between sunset and sunrise.

- horae antemeridiales, the hours before noon.

- inter horam tertiam et quartam, within the time between the third and fourth hour.

- per horam (acc.sg.) by the hour, hourly.

- Horae, the Hours, daughters of Jupiter and Themis, goddesses that presided over the changes of the seasons and kept watch at the gates of heaven (Lewis & Short); “the personified hours or seasons” (Glare).

- “Quaque dies medius flagrantibus aestuat horis,” (Ray), every noontime boils with flaming hours [i.e. hours on fire].

– thermometrum aestate a 26 gradibus usque ad 32 ascendit, sed calores ventis circa horam nonam matutinis e mare spirantibus nocturnisque roribus temperantur (Desf.), the thermometer in summer rises from 26 degrees to 32 [degrees], but the heats are regulated by the morning winds around the nineth hour blowing from the sea, and by the night damps [i.e. dews].

Semihora,-ae (s.f.I), abl. sg. semihora: half an hour.