arura

English

Alternative forms

• aroura

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἄρουρα (ároura, “arura”), a semantic loan from Egyptian sṯꜣt (“arura”).

Noun

arura (plural aruras)

1. (historical) An ancient measure of arable land, a square of 100 Egyptian cubits (mḥ) on each side.

Translations

ancient Egyptian measure of arable land

• Egyptian: (sṯꜣt)

Anagrams

• araru, arrau, aurar

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἄρουρα (ároura).

Noun

arūra f (genitive arūrae); first declension

1. A field, cornfield

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	arūra	arūrae
Genitive	arūrae	arūrārum
Dative	arūrae	arūrīs
Accusative	arūram	arūrās
Ablative	arūrā	arūrīs
Vocative	arūra	arūrae

References

• “arura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• arura in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• arura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “arura”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “arura”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin