æra

See also: aera, aerá, aéra, aerã, ära, aera-, œra, and Appendix:Variations of "era"

English

Noun

æra (plural æras)

  1. Archaic spelling of era.
    • 1798, Pierre Simon La Place, “Exposition du Système du Monde [On the System of the World]”, in The Monthly Review, new and improved, →ISBN, page 500:
      It is desirable that all people should adopt one and the same æra, independant of moral revolutions, and founded solely on astronomical phænomena.
    • 1892, Thomas Keightley, Fairy Mythology, London: George Bell and Sons, page 5:
      In the fourth century of our æra we find this word made plural, and even feminine, and used as the equivalent of Parcæ.

Anagrams

Danish

Noun

æra c (singular definite æraen, plural indefinite æraer)

  1. era

Inflection

Faroese

Noun

æra f (genitive singular æru, uncountable)

  1. honor (UK, honour)

Declension

Declension of æra (singular only)
f1s singular
indefinite definite
nominative æra æran
accusative æru æruna
dative æru æruni
genitive æru ærunnar

Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈaiːra/
    Rhymes: -aiːra

Noun

æra f (genitive singular æru, nominative plural ærur)

  1. reputation, honour
Declension
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Norse œra.

Verb

æra (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative ærði, supine ært)

  1. (transitive, governs the accusative) to drive crazy
Conjugation
Derived terms

Adjective

æra

  1. inflection of ær:
    1. masculine accusative plural
    2. feminine accusative singular

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Latin aera.

Noun

æra m (definite singular æraen, indefinite plural æraer, definite plural æraene)

  1. era

Alternative forms

Noun

æra m sg or f sg

  1. definite feminine singular of ære

Alternative forms

Verb

æra

  1. simple past of ære
  2. past participle of ære

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Latin aera.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈæː.rɑ/

Noun

æra m (definite singular æraen, indefinite plural æraer or æraar, definite plural æraene or æraane)

  1. an era
    ein æra er forbian era is over

Etymology 2

From Old Norse æra (noun and verb).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /²æː.rɑ/

Noun

æra f (plural æra)

  1. definite singular of ære
  2. (pre-2012) alternative form of ære

Verb

æra (present tense ærar, past tense æra, past participle æra, passive infinitive ærast, present participle ærande, imperative æra/ær)

  1. alternative form of ære

Etymology 3

From Old Norse æra. In an umlaut relationship with år (year).

Verb

æra (present tense ærer, past tense ærte, past participle ært, passive infinitive ærast, present participle ærande, imperative ær)

  1. alternative form of ære

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈæː.rɑ/

Noun

æra f

  1. definite singular of ær

References

Anagrams

  • Æ-ar, æ-ar

Old Norse

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle Low German ēre, from Old Saxon ēra (honour, renown, glory), from Proto-West Germanic *aiʀu (honour; respect, reverence), from Proto-Germanic *aizō (fear, reverence; glory), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂oys-éh₂, from *h₂eys- (to respect). Doublet of eir.

Noun

æra f (genitive æru)

  1. honour
Declension
Descendants
  • Danish: ære
  • Icelandic: æra
  • Faroese: æra
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: ære
  • Norwegian Bokmål: ære
  • Swedish: ära

Etymology 2

In an umlaut relationship with ár f (oar).

Verb

æra

  1. (intransitive) to row, pull
    Synonym: róa
Conjugation

Etymology 3

In an umlaut relationship with ár n (year).

Verb

æra

  1. (impersonal, transitive with accusative) to give a good crop
    ærir akrthe field becomes fertile
Conjugation
Descendants

References

  • æra in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.

Old Swedish

Verb

æra

  1. third-person plural present indicative of vara
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