aura

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.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɔː.ɹə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɔɹ.ə/

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• Rhymes: -ɔːɹə

aura (plural aurae or auræ or auras)

1. Distinctive atmosphere or quality associated with something.

   Synonyms: air, feeling, mood, spirit, vibe

   This place has an aura of 19th century Paris.

2. (parapsychology) An invisible force surrounding a living creature.
3. (medicine) Perceptual disturbance experienced by some migraine sufferers before a migraine headache.
4. (medicine) Telltale sensation experienced by some people with epilepsy before a seizure.

• “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.

• Aaru, Arau

Borrowed from Latin aura, from Ancient Greek αὔρα (aúra, “breeze, soft wind”). Doublet of the inherited ora.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈaw.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈaw.ɾa]

aura f (plural aures)

1. gentle breeze

   Synonym: ora

2. popularity
3. aura

• “aura” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

aura f (plural aure)

1. Alternative form of jaura

Borrowed from Latin aura, from Ancient Greek αὔρα (aúra).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑu̯.raː/

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• Hyphenation: au‧ra

aura f (plural aura's, diminutive auraatje n)

1. aura

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑu̯rɑ/, [ˈɑ̝u̯rɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑurɑ
• Syllabification^(key): au‧ra

Traditional kehäaura

From Proto-Finnic *atra (compare Estonian ader), borrowed from Proto-Germanic *arþrą (compare Old Norse arðr), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂érh₃trom.

aura

1. plough, plow (agricultural tool)

   Synonym: kyntöaura

   Isäntä kynti peltoa uudella viisisiipisellä auralla.

   The householder ploughed the field with a new five-blade plough.

2. plough, plow (device used to clear snow)

   Synonym: lumiaura

3. wedge (group of birds flying in a V-shaped formation)
4. (skiing, ski jumping) wedge (pointing the skis inwards to slow down)

• “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

Borrowed from Latin aura.

aura

1. aura

• “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

• raau, uraa

• IPA^(key): /o.ʁa/, /ɔ.ʁa/

Borrowed from Latin aura.

aura f (plural auras)

1. aura

aura

1. third-person singular future of avoir

• “aura”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from Latin aura (“breeze, smell”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈɒurɒ]
• Hyphenation: au‧ra
• Rhymes: -rɒ

aura (plural aurák)

1. aura

• 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)

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”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈau̯ra]
• Hyphenation: au‧ra

aura (plural a-, first-person possessive auraku, second-person possessive auramu, third-person possessive auranya)

1. aura,
   1. an invisible force surrounding a living creature.
   2. (medicine) perceptual disturbance experienced by some migraine sufferers before a migraine headache.
   3. (medicine) telltale sensation experienced by some people with epilepsy before a seizure.

• “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.

Borrowed from Latin aura, from Ancient Greek αὔρα (aúra, “breeze, soft wind”). Doublet of the inherited ora.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaw.ra/
• Rhymes: -awra
• Hyphenation: àu‧ra

aura f (plural aure)

1. aura
2. light breeze

From Ancient Greek αὔρα (aúra).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈau̯.ra/, [ˈäu̯rä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈau̯.ra/, [ˈäːu̯rä]

aura f (genitive aurae); first declension

1. air
2. 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.

First-declension noun.

• āēr
• ventus
• spīritus

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: avrã
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: ora (ety. 3)
• North Italian:
  • Piedmontese: òra
  • Romansch: aura, ora
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: ora
  • Franco-Provençal: oura
  • Old French: ore
  • Occitan: aura
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Portuguese: oura, oira
• 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)

• “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)
    

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

aura

1. accusative plural of eyrir
2. genitive plural of eyrir

Learned borrowing from Latin aura.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaw.ra/

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• Rhymes: -awra
• Syllabification: au‧ra

aura f

1. aura (distinctive atmosphere or quality associated with something)

   Synonyms: atmosfera, klimat, nastrój

2. (meteorology) weather (distinctive atmosphere)

   Synonym: pogoda

3. (medicine) aura (telltale sensation experienced by some people with epilepsy before a seizure)
4. (parapsychology) aura (an invisible force surrounding a living creature)

   Synonym: pole biologiczne

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

Learned borrowing from Latin aura, from Ancient Greek αὔρα (aúra, “breeze, soft wind”). Doublet of oura, which was inherited.

• Rhymes: -awɾɐ
• Hyphenation: au‧ra

aura f (plural auras)

1. aura (an invisible force surrounding a living creature)

• ora (Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader)

Inherited from Latin aura.

aura f

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) weather

• IPA^(key): /ˈauɾa/ [ˈau̯.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -auɾa
• Syllabification: au‧ra

Borrowed from Latin aura, from Ancient Greek αὔρα (aúra, “breeze, soft wind”).

aura f (plural auras)

1. aura

aura f (plural auras)

1. the turkey vulture and related species in the genus Cathartes, carrion-eating birds native to the Americas

• 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.

• “aura”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaʊ̯.ra/

aura c

1. aura

• aura in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• aura in Svensk ordbok (SO)

aura

1. (Loli) vow, oath, pledge

• 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