aura
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin aura (“a breeze, a breath of air, the air”), from Ancient Greek αὔρα (aúra, “breeze, soft wind”), from ἀήρ (aḗr, “air”). Doublet of east, auster, air, and aria.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
aura (plural aurae or auræ or auras)
- Distinctive atmosphere or quality associated with something.
- (parapsychology) An invisible force surrounding a living creature.
- (medicine) Perceptual disturbance experienced by some migraine sufferers before a migraine headache.
- (medicine) Telltale sensation experienced by some people with epilepsy before a seizure.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
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Further reading edit
- “aura”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “aura”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “aura”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams edit
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin aura, from Ancient Greek αὔρα (aúra, “breeze, soft wind”). Doublet of the inherited ora.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
aura f (plural aures)
- gentle breeze
- Synonym: ora
- popularity
- aura
Further reading edit
- “aura” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Dalmatian edit
Noun edit
aura f (plural aure)
- Alternative form of jaura
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin aura, from Ancient Greek αὔρα (aúra).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
aura f (plural aura's, diminutive auraatje n)
Finnish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Proto-Finnic *atra (compare Estonian ader), borrowed from Proto-Germanic *arþrą (compare Old Norse arðr), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂érh₃trom.
Noun edit
aura
- plough, plow (agricultural tool)
- Synonym: kyntöaura
- Isäntä kynti peltoa uudella viisisiipisellä auralla.
- The householder ploughed the field with a new five-blade plough.
- plough, plow (device used to clear snow)
- Synonym: lumiaura
- wedge (group of birds flying in a V-shaped formation)
- (skiing, ski jumping) wedge (pointing the skis inwards to slow down)
Declension edit
Inflection of aura (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | aura | aurat | ||
genitive | auran | aurojen | ||
partitive | auraa | auroja | ||
illative | auraan | auroihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | aura | aurat | ||
accusative | nom. | aura | aurat | |
gen. | auran | |||
genitive | auran | aurojen aurainrare | ||
partitive | auraa | auroja | ||
inessive | aurassa | auroissa | ||
elative | aurasta | auroista | ||
illative | auraan | auroihin | ||
adessive | auralla | auroilla | ||
ablative | auralta | auroilta | ||
allative | auralle | auroille | ||
essive | aurana | auroina | ||
translative | auraksi | auroiksi | ||
abessive | auratta | auroitta | ||
instructive | — | auroin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “1. aura”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
aura
Declension edit
Inflection of aura (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | aura | aurat | ||
genitive | auran | aurojen | ||
partitive | auraa | auroja | ||
illative | auraan | auroihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | aura | aurat | ||
accusative | nom. | aura | aurat | |
gen. | auran | |||
genitive | auran | aurojen aurainrare | ||
partitive | auraa | auroja | ||
inessive | aurassa | auroissa | ||
elative | aurasta | auroista | ||
illative | auraan | auroihin | ||
adessive | auralla | auroilla | ||
ablative | auralta | auroilta | ||
allative | auralle | auroille | ||
essive | aurana | auroina | ||
translative | auraksi | auroiksi | ||
abessive | auratta | auroitta | ||
instructive | — | auroin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Further reading edit
- “2. aura”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01
Anagrams edit
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
aura f (plural auras)
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
aura
Further reading edit
- “aura”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Hungarian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin aura (“breeze, smell”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
aura (plural aurák)
Declension edit
Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | aura | aurák |
accusative | aurát | aurákat |
dative | aurának | auráknak |
instrumental | aurával | aurákkal |
causal-final | auráért | aurákért |
translative | aurává | aurákká |
terminative | auráig | aurákig |
essive-formal | auraként | aurákként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | aurában | aurákban |
superessive | aurán | aurákon |
adessive | auránál | auráknál |
illative | aurába | aurákba |
sublative | aurára | aurákra |
allative | aurához | aurákhoz |
elative | aurából | aurákból |
delative | auráról | aurákról |
ablative | aurától | auráktól |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
auráé | auráké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
auráéi | aurákéi |
Possessive forms of aura | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | aurám | auráim |
2nd person sing. | aurád | auráid |
3rd person sing. | aurája | aurái |
1st person plural | auránk | auráink |
2nd person plural | aurátok | auráitok |
3rd person plural | aurájuk | auráik |
Further reading edit
- aura in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)
Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
From English aura, from Latin aura (“a breeze, a breath of air, the air”), from Ancient Greek αὔρα (aúra, “breeze, soft wind”), from ἀήρ (aḗr, “air”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
aura (plural a-, first-person possessive auraku, second-person possessive auramu, third-person possessive auranya)
- aura,
Further reading edit
- “aura” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin aura, from Ancient Greek αὔρα (aúra, “breeze, soft wind”). Doublet of the inherited ora.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
aura f (plural aure)
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek αὔρα (aúra).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈau̯.ra/, [ˈäu̯rä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈau̯.ra/, [ˈäːu̯rä]
Noun edit
aura f (genitive aurae); first declension
- air
- breeze
- 13 CE, Ovid, Epistulae ex Ponto 2.3.25–28:
- Ēn ego, nōn paucīs quondam mūnītus amīcīs,
dum flāvit vēlīs aura secunda meīs,
ut fera nimbōsō tumuērunt aequora ventō,
in mediīs lacerā nāve relinquor aquīs.- Behold me! once supported by many friends—while a favouring breeze filled my sails now that the wild seas have been swelled by the stormy wind, I am abandoned on a shattered bark in the midst of the waters.
- Ēn ego, nōn paucīs quondam mūnītus amīcīs,
- 13 CE, Ovid, Epistulae ex Ponto 2.3.25–28:
Declension edit
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | aura | aurae |
Genitive | aurae | aurārum |
Dative | aurae | aurīs |
Accusative | auram | aurās |
Ablative | aurā | aurīs |
Vocative | aura | aurae |
Synonyms edit
Descendants edit
- Balkan Romance:
- Aromanian: avrã
- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: ora (ety. 3)
- North Italian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Vulgar Latin: (see there for further descendants)
Unsorted borrowings:
- → Albanian: aura
- → Bulgarian: аура (aura)
- → Catalan: aura
- → Czech: aura
- → Danish: aura
- → Dutch: aura
- → English: aura
- → Japanese: オーラ (ōra)
- → Esperanto: aŭro
- → Finnish: aura
- → French: aura
- → Galician: aura
- → German: Aura
- → Hungarian: aura
- → Icelandic: ára
- → Indonesian: aura
- → Italian: aura
- → Korean: 아우라 (aura)
- → Macedonian: аура (aura)
- → Norwegian: aura
- → Occitan: aura
- → Polish: aura
- → Portuguese: aura
- → Romanian: aură
- → Romansch: aura
- → Russian: а́ура (áura)
- → Serbo-Croatian: àura, а̀ура
- → Slovene: aura
- → Spanish: aura
- → Sundanese: aura
- → Swedish: aura
- → Turkish: aura
- → Ukrainian: а́ура (áura)
References edit
- “aura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- aura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[3], London: Macmillan and Co.
- popular favour; popularity: aura favoris popularis (Liv. 22. 26)
- popular favour; popularity: aura popularis (Harusp. 18. 43)
- to court popularity: auram popularem captare (Liv. 3. 33)
- a popular man: aurae popularis homo (Liv. 42. 30)
- to use some one's unpopularity as a means of making oneself popular: ex invidia alicuius auram popularem petere (Liv. 22. 26)
- popular favour; popularity: aura favoris popularis (Liv. 22. 26)
Old Norse edit
Etymology edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun edit
aura
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin aura.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
aura f
- aura (distinctive atmosphere or quality associated with something)
- (meteorology) weather (distinctive atmosphere)
- Synonym: pogoda
- (medicine) aura (telltale sensation experienced by some people with epilepsy before a seizure)
- (parapsychology) aura (an invisible force surrounding a living creature)
- Synonym: pole biologiczne
Declension edit
Further reading edit
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin aura, from Ancient Greek αὔρα (aúra, “breeze, soft wind”). Doublet of oura, which was inherited.
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -awɾɐ
- Hyphenation: au‧ra
Noun edit
aura f (plural auras)
- aura (an invisible force surrounding a living creature)
Romansch edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
aura f
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Latin aura, from Ancient Greek αὔρα (aúra, “breeze, soft wind”).
Noun edit
aura f (plural auras)
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
aura f (plural auras)
- the turkey vulture and related species in the genus Cathartes, carrion-eating birds native to the Americas
Usage notes edit
- Feminine nouns beginning with stressed /ˈa/ like this one regularly take the singular articles el and un, usually reserved for masculine nouns.
- el aura, un aura
- They maintain the usual feminine singular articles la and una if an adjective intervenes between the article and the noun.
Further reading edit
- “aura”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin aura (“a breeze, a breath of air, the air”), from Ancient Greek αὔρα (aúra, “breeze, soft wind”), from ἀήρ (aḗr, “air”). Doublet of aria.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
aura c
Declension edit
Declension of aura | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | aura | auran | auror | aurorna |
Genitive | auras | aurans | aurors | aurornas |
References edit
Weyewa edit
Noun edit
aura
References edit
- Lobu Ori, S,Pd, M.Pd (2010) “aura”, in Kamus Bahasa Lolina [Dictionary of the Loli Language] (in Indonesian), Waikabubak: Kepala Dinas Kebudayaan dan Pariwisata, Kabupaten Sumba Barat
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂ews- (dawn)
- English terms borrowed from Latin
- English terms derived from Latin
- English terms derived from Ancient Greek
- English doublets
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- Rhymes:English/ɔːɹə
- Rhymes:English/ɔːɹə/2 syllables
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English nouns with irregular plurals
- English terms with usage examples
- en:Parapsychology
- en:Medicine
- en:Pseudoscience
- Catalan terms borrowed from Latin
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- Dalmatian lemmas
- Dalmatian nouns
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- Dutch terms borrowed from Latin
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- Dutch lemmas
- Dutch nouns
- Dutch nouns with plural in -s
- Dutch feminine nouns
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑurɑ
- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑurɑ/2 syllables
- Finnish terms inherited from Proto-Finnic
- Finnish terms derived from Proto-Finnic
- Finnish terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Finnish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish terms with usage examples
- fi:Skiing
- Finnish kala-type nominals
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- fi:Agriculture
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- fr:Parapsychology
- Hungarian terms borrowed from Latin
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- Rhymes:Hungarian/rɒ
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- Hungarian lemmas
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- hu:Pseudoscience
- hu:Medicine
- Indonesian terms borrowed from English
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- id:Medicine
- Italian terms borrowed from Latin
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- Rhymes:Italian/awra
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- la:Weather
- la:Wind
- Old Norse non-lemma forms
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- Polish terms derived from Ancient Greek
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- Rhymes:Polish/awra
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- Polish lemmas
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- Polish feminine nouns
- pl:Meteorology
- pl:Medicine
- pl:Parapsychology
- Portuguese terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
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- Rhymes:Portuguese/awɾɐ
- Rhymes:Portuguese/awɾɐ/2 syllables
- Portuguese lemmas
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- Romansch terms inherited from Latin
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- Rumantsch Grischun
- Sursilvan Romansch
- rm:Weather
- Spanish 2-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Spanish/auɾa
- Rhymes:Spanish/auɾa/2 syllables
- Spanish terms borrowed from Latin
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- es:Birds
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