area
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
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NounEdit
- (mathematics) A measure of the extent of a surface; it is measured in square units.
- 2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns
- It is about 4.5 million square kilometers in area and holds the world’s third largest collection of ice after Antarctica and Greenland.
- 2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns
- A particular geographic region.
- Any particular extent of surface, especially an empty or unused extent.
- The photo is a little dark in that area.
- The extent, scope, or range of an object or concept.
- 2013 September-October, Rob Dorit, “Making Life from Scratch”, in American Scientist:
- Today, a new area of research that similarly aims to mimic a complex biological phenomenon—life itself—is taking off. Synthetic biology, a seductive experimental subfield in the life sciences, seems tantalizingly to promise custom-designed life created in the laboratory.
- The plans are a bit vague in that area.
- (Britain) An open space, below ground level, between the front of a house and the pavement.
- (Can we date this quote?), Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans:
- We sprang through into the dark passage, closing the area door behind us.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Charles Dickens to this entry?)
- (soccer) Penalty box; penalty area.
- 2010 December 29, Mark Vesty, “Wigan 2-2 Arsenal”, in BBC:
- Bendtner's goal-bound shot was well saved by goalkeeper Ali Al Habsi but fell to Arsahvin on the edge of the area and the Russian swivelled, shaped his body and angled a sumptuous volley into the corner.
- (slang) Genitals.
- 2003 October 2, Giovanni Ribisi as Frank Buffay Jr., “The One Where Ross Is Fine”, in Friends, season 10, episode 2, NBC:
- But what do I do when the third one runs at me with his bike helmet on? I got no more hands to protect my area!
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TranslationsEdit
maths: measure of extent of a surface
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particular geographic region
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any particular extent
figuratively, any extent, scope or range
open space, below ground level, between the front of a house and the pavement
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soccer: penalty area — see penalty area
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- Imperial: square inches, square feet, square yards, square miles, acres
- Metric: square meters/square metres, square centimeters/square centimetres, square kilometers/square kilometres, hectares
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GalicianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Galician and Old Portuguese arẽa, from Latin arēnā (“sand”). Cognate with Portuguese areia and Spanish arena.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
area f (plural areas)
- sand (a grain)
- (figuratively) a grain of salt
- sand (collectively)
- Synonym: xabre
- (dated) beach, cove
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ReferencesEdit
- “area” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
- “area” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
- “area” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
- “area” in Santamarina, Antón (dir.), Ernesto González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja: Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (v 4.0). Santiago: ILG.
- “area” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
ItalianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin ārea. Doublet of Italian aia (“threshing floor”).
NounEdit
area f (plural aree)
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LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
- Either from Proto-Italic *āz-eyā-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eHs-eyeh₂-, from *h₂eHs- (“to burn”) (whence āreō, ārā),
- Or from Proto-Italic *ār-eyā-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eh₂r-eyeh₂-, from *h₂eh₂rh₃- (“threshing tool”) (cognate with Hittite [script needed] (ḫaḫḫar, “rake, threshing tool”)), resultative reduplicated noun from verb *h₂erh₃- (“to plough”).[1]
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
ārea f (genitive āreae); first declension
- a piece of level ground, a vacant place (esp. in the town)
- ground for a house, a building-spot
- (figuratively) a vacant space around or in a house, a court
- (figuratively) an open space for games, an open [8play-ground]]
- (figuratively) a threshing floor
- (figuratively) the halo around the sun or moon
- (figuratively) a bed or border in a garden
- (figuratively) a fowling-floor
- (figuratively) a burying-ground, church-yard
- (figuratively) a bald spot upon the head, baldness
- vocative singular of ārea
āreā f
InflectionEdit
| Case | Singular | Plural |
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| Nominative | ārea | āreae |
| Genitive | āreae | āreārum |
| Dative | āreae | āreīs |
| Accusative | āream | āreās |
| Ablative | āreā | āreīs |
| Vocative | ārea | āreae |
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ReferencesEdit
- area in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- area in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- area in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- area in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- area in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- area in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- ^ Cohen, Paul S. (2014), “Some Hittite and Armenian Reduplications and Their (P)IE Ramifications”, in Indo-European Linguistics