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era

See also: Appendix:Variations of "era"
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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Late Latin aera.

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era (plural eras)

  1. A time period of indeterminate length, generally more than one year.
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 6, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
      Even in an era when individuality in dress is a cult, his clothes were noticeable. He was wearing a hard hat of the low round kind favoured by hunting men, and with it a black duffle-coat lined with white.
    • 2012 January, Philip E. Mirowski, “Harms to Health from the Pursuit of Profits”, in American Scientist‎[2], volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 4 April 2012, page 87:
      In an era when political leaders promise deliverance from decline through America’s purported preeminence in scientific research, the news that science is in deep trouble in the United States has been as unwelcome as a diagnosis of leukemia following the loss of health insurance.
  2. (geology) A geochronologic unit of tens to hundreds of millions of years; a subdivision of an eon, and subdivided into periods.

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Albanian

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Noun

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era

  1. definite nominative singular of erë

Asturian

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Etymology

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From Late Latin aera.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈeɾa/ [ˈe.ɾa]
  • Rhymes: -eɾa
  • Syllabification: e‧ra

Noun

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era f (plural eres)

  1. era (time period)
    Synonyms: dómina, época

Azerbaijani

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Russian э́ра (éra), ultimately from Late Latin aera.

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era (definite accusative eranı, plural eralar)

  1. era
    yeni eraya qədəm qoymaq ― to enter a new era
    eramızdan əvvəl ― before the common era

Declension

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Declension of era
singular plural
nominative eraeralar
definite accusative eranıeraları
dative erayaeralara
locative eradaeralarda
ablative eradaneralardan
definite genitive eranıneraların
Possessive forms of era
nominative
singular plural
mənim (“my”) eram eralarım
sənin (“your”) eran eraların
onun (“his/her/its”) erası eraları
bizim (“our”) eramız eralarımız
sizin (“your”) eranız eralarınız
onların (“their”) erası or eraları eraları
accusative
singular plural
mənim (“my”) eramı eralarımı
sənin (“your”) eranı eralarını
onun (“his/her/its”) erasını eralarını
bizim (“our”) eramızı eralarımızı
sizin (“your”) eranızı eralarınızı
onların (“their”) erasını or eralarını eralarını
dative
singular plural
mənim (“my”) erama eralarıma
sənin (“your”) erana eralarına
onun (“his/her/its”) erasına eralarına
bizim (“our”) eramıza eralarımıza
sizin (“your”) eranıza eralarınıza
onların (“their”) erasına or eralarına eralarına
locative
singular plural
mənim (“my”) eramda eralarımda
sənin (“your”) eranda eralarında
onun (“his/her/its”) erasında eralarında
bizim (“our”) eramızda eralarımızda
sizin (“your”) eranızda eralarınızda
onların (“their”) erasında or eralarında eralarında
ablative
singular plural
mənim (“my”) eramdan eralarımdan
sənin (“your”) erandan eralarından
onun (“his/her/its”) erasından eralarından
bizim (“our”) eramızdan eralarımızdan
sizin (“your”) eranızdan eralarınızdan
onların (“their”) erasından or eralarından eralarından
genitive
singular plural
mənim (“my”) eramın eralarımın
sənin (“your”) eranın eralarının
onun (“his/her/its”) erasının eralarının
bizim (“our”) eramızın eralarımızın
sizin (“your”) eranızın eralarınızın
onların (“their”) erasının or eralarının eralarının

Further reading

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  • “era” in Obastan.com.

Basque

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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era inan

  1. manner

Catalan

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Late Latin aera.

Noun

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era f (plural eres)

  1. era (time period)
    Synonym: època

Etymology 2

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Inherited from Latin ārea (“open space; threshing floor”). Compare the borrowed doublet àrea.

Noun

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era f (plural eres)

  1. small section of arable land destined for cultivation

Etymology 3

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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era

  1. first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of ser
  2. first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of ésser

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Chuukese

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Verb

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era

  1. (intransitive) to say
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Creek

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Noun

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era

  1. his/her back

Inflection

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Possessive inflection of era (inalienable)
Singular Plural
First person cvra pora
Second person cera
Third person era
Indefinite estera

References

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  • J. B. Martin, M. McKane Mauldrin (2004) A dictionary of Creek/Muscogee, University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 31
  • J. B. Martin (2011) A grammar of Creek (Muscogee), University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 134

Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin aera.

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Noun

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era f (plural era's)

  1. era, age, epoch
    Synonyms: eeuw, tijdperk
  2. (dated) era, calendar
    Synonym: jaartelling

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  • → Indonesian: era

Esperanto

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Adjective

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era (accusative singular eran, plural eraj, accusative plural erajn)

  1. adjective form of ero (“bit, piece”).

Fala

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Verb

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era

  1. first-person singular imperfect indicative of sel (“to be”)
  2. third-person singular imperfect indicative of sel (“to be”)
    • 2000, Domingo Frades Gaspar, Vamus a falal: Notas pâ coñocel y platical en nosa fala, Editora regional da Extremadura, Theme IV, Chapter 1: Non Diptongación da “E” i a “O” en Nossa Fala:
      Tampocu era normal en o leonés antiguu, según os estudius dos escritus i textus estudiaus, por ejemplu por Menéndez Pidal, quen tamén viñu i estudió o mañegu.
      Neither was it normal in Old Leonese, according to studies of the writings and the texts studied, by Menéndez Pidal for example, who also came and studied Mañego.

Galician

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Verb

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era

  1. first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of ser

Indonesian

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Dutch era, from Latin aera.

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Noun

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era (plural era-era)

  1. era, age, epoch
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Hitu [Term?]

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Noun

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era (plural era-era)

  1. sago dreg

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Interlingua

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Noun

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era (plural eras)

  1. era

Verb

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era

  1. optional irregular past tense form of esser ("to be")

Italian

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Late Latin aera.

Noun

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era f (plural ere)

  1. age, epoch, period
    Synonyms: epoca, età
  2. (geology) era

Etymology 2

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Inherited from Latin erat.

Verb

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era

  1. third-person singular imperfect indicative of essere

Etymology 3

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From Latin eram.

Verb

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era

  1. (obsolete) Alternative form of ero, first-person singular imperfect indicative of essere
    • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell]‎[3], lines 10–12; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎[4], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
      Io non so ben ridir com’i’ v’intrai, ¶ tant’era pien di sonno a quel punto ¶ che la verace via abbandonai.
      I cannot well repeat how there I entered, ⁠¶ ⁠So full was I of slumber at the moment ¶ ⁠In which I had abandoned the true way.

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  1. ^ era in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

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Ladino

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Verb

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era (Hebrew spelling אירה)

  1. first-person singular imperfect indicative of ser
  2. third-person singular imperfect indicative of ser

Latin

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Alternative forms

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era f (genitive erae, masculine erus); first declension

  1. mistress (of a house, with respect to the servants)

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First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative era erae
genitive erae erārum
dative erae erīs
accusative eram erās
ablative erā erīs
vocative era erae

Luganda

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Conjunction

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era

  1. and then (only used for occurrences in chronological order)

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References

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The Essentials of Luganda, J. D. Chesswas, 4th edition. Oxford University Press: Nairobi. 1967, p. 95.

Mirandese

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era

  1. first/third-person singular imperfect of ser

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Verb

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era

  1. (archaic or dialectal) plural present of vera

Occitan

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Article

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era f

  1. feminine singular of eth

Pronoun

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era

  1. (Gascony) she

Old Dutch

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Etymology

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From Proto-West Germanic *aiʀu, from Proto-Germanic *aizō.

Noun

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ēra f

  1. honour
  2. dignity

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Declension of ēra (feminine ō/ōn-stem noun)
case singular plural
nominative ēra ēra, ēron
accusative ēra, ēron ēra, ēron
genitive ēron ērono
dative ēron ēron

Derived terms

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Descendants

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Further reading

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  • “ēra”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old English

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Verb

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era

  1. imperative singular of erian

Old High German

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FWOTD – 7 April 2014

Etymology

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From Proto-West Germanic *aiʀu, from Proto-Germanic *aizō, whence also Old English ār, Old Norse eir.

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ēra f

  1. honour
  2. renown
  3. respect

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Declension of ēra (ō-stem)
case singular plural
nominative ēra ērā
accusative ēra ērā
genitive ēra ērōno
dative ēru ērōm

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References

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  • Henry Frowde, An Old High German Primer
  • Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer with grammar, notes and glossary, Second Edition

Old Saxon

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Etymology

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From Proto-West Germanic *aiʀu, from Proto-Germanic *aizō, whence also Old English ār, Old Norse eir.

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ēra f

  1. honour
  2. renown
  3. glory

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era (feminine ō-stem)
singular plural
nominative era era
accusative era era
genitive era, eru, ero erono
dative eru, ero, era eron, erum, erun
instrumental — —

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Old Tupi

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *teT, from Proto-Tupian *jeT.[1]

Cognate with Guaraní téra.

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era (possessable, IIa class pluriform, absolute tera, R1 rera, R2 sera)

  1. name

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Descendants

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References

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  1. ^ Andrey Nikulin (2020) Proto-Macro-Jê: um estudo reconstrutivo‎[1] (in Portuguese), Brasília: UnB

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Polish

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Etymology

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Internationalism; compare English era, French ère, German Ära, ultimately from Late Latin aera.

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Noun

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era f

  1. era

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Declension of era
singular plural
nominative era ery
genitive ery er
dative erze erom
accusative erę ery
instrumental erą erami
locative erze erach
vocative ero ery
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Further reading

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  • era in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • era in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Late Latin aera.

Noun

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era f (plural eras)

  1. era (time period of indeterminate length, generally more than one year)
    Synonym: época
  2. (archaeology) age (period of human prehistory)
    Synonym: idade
  3. (geology) era (unit of time, smaller than aeons and greater than periods)
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Etymology 2

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Verb

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era

  1. first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of ser

Rapa Nui

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Etymology

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From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *e-la. Cognates include Tuamotuan era and Maori ērā.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈe.ɾa/
  • Hyphenation: e‧ra

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era

  1. that
    Te vaka era. ― That canoe.

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Rapa Nui demonstratives
neutral proximal medial distal
demonstrative determiners tū, hū1) nei, nī2) nā rā
postnuclear demonstratives — nei ena era
demonstrative pronouns ira nei nā rā
demonstrative locationals — nei nā rā

1) emphatic   2) rare

References

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  • Veronica Du Feu (1996) Rapanui (Descriptive Grammars), Routledge, →ISBN, page 145
  • Paulus Kieviet (2017) A grammar of Rapa Nui‎[6], Berlin: Language Science Press, →ISBN, page 194

Romanian

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Etymology 1

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Verb

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era

  1. third-person singular imperfect indicative of fi: he/she was (being)
    el era pierdut
    he was lost
    el era sarcastic
    he was being sarcastic

Etymology 2

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era f

  1. definite nominative/accusative singular of eră

Rwanda-Rundi

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-êra (infinitive kwêra, perfective -êze)

  1. be white
  2. be pure, be innocent
  3. be holy
  4. be ripe

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Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Late Latin aera.

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  • IPA(key): /ěːra/
  • Hyphenation: e‧ra

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éra f (Cyrillic spelling е́ра)

  1. era

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Declension of era
singular plural
nominative éra ere
genitive ere ȇrā
dative eri erama
accusative eru ere
vocative ero ere
locative eri erama
instrumental erom erama

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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era

  1. first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of ser

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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Late Latin aera.

Noun

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era f (plural eras)

  1. era, age
    la Nueva Era ― New Age
  2. (geology) era
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Etymology 3

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Inherited from Latin ārea. Compare the borrowed doublet área.

Noun

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era f (plural eras)

  1. threshing floor
  2. tipple

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Swedish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /eːra/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: e‧ra

Etymology 1

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From Old Norse yðr, yðar, from Proto-Germanic *izwiz.

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Pronoun

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era (singular form er)

  1. your, yours (multiple owners of more than one object)
  2. you (only in this use:)
    Era jävla idioter!
    You bloody idiots!
    Era små fan!
    You little bastards!
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Swedish personal pronouns
Number Person nominative oblique possessive
common neuter plural
singular first — jag mig, mej3 min mitt mina
second — du dig, dej3 din ditt dina
third masculine (person) han honom, han2, en5 hans
feminine (person) hon henne, na5 hennes
gender-neutral (person)1 hen hen, henom7 hens
common (noun) den den dess
neuter (noun) det det dess
indefinite man or en4 en ens
reflexive — sig, sej3 sin sitt sina
plural first — vi oss vår, våran2 vårt, vårat2 våra
second — ni er er, eran2, ers6 ert, erat2 era
archaic I eder eder, eders6 edert edra
third — de, dom3 dem, dom3 deras
reflexive — sig, sej3 sin sitt sina
1Neologism. Usage has increased since 2010, though it remains limited.
2Informal
4Dialectal, also used lately as an alternative to man, to avoid association to the male gender.
5Informal, somewhat dialectal
6Formal address
7Discouraged by the Swedish Language Council

Etymology 2

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From Latin aera.

Noun

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era c

  1. era
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Declension of era
nominative genitive
singular indefinite era eras
definite eran erans
plural indefinite eror erors
definite erorna erornas

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Tause

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Noun

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era

  1. water

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  • ira (Weirate and Deirate dialects)

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