hourly
/ˈaʊəli/OWR-lee
UK form converted from the US by rule · unchecked/ˈaʊɹli/OWR-lee
Meaningevery hour
Common meaning: happening once an hour
Other meanings: paid by the hour
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- houra season; an hour of the dayLiddell & Scott, Greek-English Lexicon (1883), p. 1767 · scan
- lyadverb ending: in a way
Journey through time
- Greekὥρα‘a season’
- Latinhora
- Frenchhore
- Middle Englishhouresource
- Englishhour‘a sixtieth part of a day’
- Englishformed in English from hourhourly‘happening once an hour’ · today
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
- No UK recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-GB voice.
- US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
- No US recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-US voice.
Origin: Formed in English from hour + -ly.
Dictionary: Skeat (1898), HOUR, p.273 · scan
Roots
- ὥρα Greek “a season; an hour of the day”
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