noun, masculine/ɔʁ/plural: ors
gold; or (yellow in heraldry)
From Middle French or, from Old French or, from Latin aurum, from Proto-Italic *auzom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂é-h₂us-o- (“glow”), from *h₂ews- (“to dawn, become light, become red”).
/ɔʁ/
gold; or (yellow in heraldry)
From Middle French or, from Old French or, from Latin aurum, from Proto-Italic *auzom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂é-h₂us-o- (“glow”), from *h₂ews- (“to dawn, become light, become red”).
now, presently
From Middle French ore, from Old French ore, from Vulgar Latin hā horā, alteration of hāc horā (“(in) this hour”, ablative). Compare Italian ora, Spanish ahora, Portuguese agora.
yet, however, now, that said, as it happens (introduces the second term in a syllogism)
“Je regardai donc cette apparition avec des yeux tout ronds d’étonnement. N’oubliez pas que je me trouvais à 1000 milles de toute région habitée. Or mon petit bonhomme ne me semblait ni égaré, ni mort de fatigue, ni mort de faim, ni mort de soif, ni mort de peur.” — So I looked at this apparition with eyes all round with astonishment. Do not forget that I was a thousand miles from any inhabited region. Now my little man did not seem to me to be lost, nor dead from fatigue, nor dead from hunger, nor dead from thirst, nor dead from fear.
From Middle French ore, from Old French ore, from Vulgar Latin hā horā, alteration of hāc horā (“(in) this hour”, ablative). Compare Italian ora, Spanish ahora, Portuguese agora.