Hours on a 24-hour clock ("military time") are expressed as "hundred" or "hundred hours". (10 am and 10 pm are both read as "ten o'clock".) Whole hours on a 12-hour clock are expressed using the contracted phrase o'clock, from the older of clock. The time of day is typically expressed in English in terms of hours. Its Proto-Indo-European root has been reconstructed as *yeh₁- ("year, summer"), making hour distantly cognate with year. Like Old English tīd and stund, hṓrā was originally a vaguer word for any span of time, including seasons and years. The Anglo-Norman term was a borrowing of Old French ure, a variant of ore, which derived from Latin hōra and Greek hṓrā ( ὥρα). It displaced tide tīd, "time" and stound stund, span of time. ![]() ![]() Hour is a development of the Anglo-Norman houre and Middle English ure, first attested in the 13th century.
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