Etymology of the French word horloge
the French word
horlogederived from the Latin word
horologium (clock, sundial)
derived from the Byzantine Greek word
horologionderived from the Greek word
hora, ὥρα (season, time; an 'hour')
derived from the Proto-Indo-European root
*yēr-derived from the Greek word
legein, λέγω (to speak)
derived from the Proto-Indo-European root
*leg- (to collect, to speak)
Date
The earliest known usage of horloge in French dates from the 12th century.
Derivations in French
horloger,
horlogiographieCognates
Dutch
uur, English
hour, French
heure, German
Uhr, Icelandic
ur, Italian
ora, Latin
hora, Spanish
hora, Swedish
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