aura
English
Etymology
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
Noun
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.
Translations
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Further reading
- “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.
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin aura, from Ancient Greek αὔρα (aúra, “breeze, soft wind”). Doublet of the inherited ora.
Further reading
- “aura” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin aura, from Ancient Greek αὔρα (aúra).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɑu̯.raː/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: au‧ra
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɑu̯rɑ/, [ˈɑ̝u̯rɑ̝]
- Rhymes: -ɑurɑ
- Syllabification(key): au‧ra
Etymology 1
From Proto-Finnic *atra (compare Estonian ader), borrowed from Proto-Germanic *arþrą (compare Old Norse arðr), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂érh₃trom.
Noun
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
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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Derived terms
Further reading
- “1. aura”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (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
Declension
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
- “2. aura”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (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
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /o.ʁa/, /ɔ.ʁa/
Further reading
- “aura”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈɒurɒ]
- Hyphenation: au‧ra
- Rhymes: -rɒ
Declension
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
- 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
Etymology
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
- IPA(key): [ˈau̯ra]
- Hyphenation: au‧ra
Noun
aura (plural a-, first-person possessive auraku, second-person possessive auramu, third-person possessive auranya)
Further reading
- “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
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin aura, from Ancient Greek αὔρα (aúra, “breeze, soft wind”). Doublet of the inherited ora.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈaw.ra/
- Rhymes: -awra
- Hyphenation: àu‧ra
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek αὔρα (aúra).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈau̯.ra/, [ˈäu̯rä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈau̯.ra/, [ˈäːu̯rä]
Noun
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
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 |
Descendants
- Balkan Romance:
- Aromanian: avrã
- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: ora (ety. 3)
- North Italian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Vulgar Latin: (see there for further descendants)
- *aurāticum
- *aurizāre
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
- “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, 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
Etymology
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈaw.ra/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -awra
- Syllabification: au‧ra
Noun
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
Portuguese
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin aura, from Ancient Greek αὔρα (aúra, “breeze, soft wind”). Doublet of oura, which was inherited.
Romansch
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈauɾa/ [ˈau̯.ɾa]
- Rhymes: -auɾa
- Syllabification: au‧ra
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin aura, from Ancient Greek αὔρα (aúra, “breeze, soft wind”).
Noun
aura f (plural auras)
- the turkey vulture and related species in the genus Cathartes, carrion-eating birds native to the Americas
Usage notes
Further reading
- “aura”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish
Etymology
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
- IPA(key): /ˈaʊ̯.ra/
Declension
Declension of aura | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | aura | auran | auror | aurorna |
Genitive | auras | aurans | aurors | aurornas |
References
Weyewa
References
- 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