Telling Time: quota hora est?

What Time Is It?

Level 3

Ask Quota hora est? and answer with hora and an ordinal.

How It Works

A Roman hour was one twelfth of the daylight, so an hour of summer was longer than an hour of winter. The numbers stayed the same all year.

To say that something happens at an hour, use the ablative of time: hora tertia, at the third hour.

Church Latin keeps three of these hours as times of prayer: tertia, sexta and nona.

Ask with quota, and not with quot. Quot asks how many, and quota asks which one in order, so it agrees with hora.

Quota hora est?
What time is it?
Quota agrees with hora.
Hora tertia est.
It is the third hour.
Tertia agrees with hora.
Hora sexta est.
It is the sixth hour, midday.
The sixth hour is the middle of the Roman day.
Hora nona pueri domum eunt.
At the ninth hour the boys go home.
Hora nona is the ablative of time.
Hora tertia monachi psalmos cantant.
At the third hour the monks sing psalms.
Tertia is one of the hours of prayer.

Using quot to ask the time.
Quot hora est?
Quota hora est?
Quot asks how many and never changes its ending. To ask which hour it is, use quota, which agrees with hora.

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Telling Time: quota hora est?Level 3What Time Is It?

The hour is an ordinal in a question.

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