Aurora

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Proper noun 1.2.1 Quotations 1.2.2 Translations 2 Italian 2.1 Proper noun 3 Latin 3.1 Etymology 3.2 Proper noun 3.2.1 Related terms 4 Spanish 4.1 Proper noun

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Latin aurora "dawn".

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Singular Aurora

Plural -

Aurora

1. (Roman mythology) Roman goddess of the dawn.
2. A female given name, in quiet but regular use since the 19th century.

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• 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene: I:iv:16:

  As faire Aurora in her purple pall,

  Out of the East the dawning day doth call

• 1904 George Bernard Shaw, How He Lied to Her Husband:

  How will they know! Why, my name is all over them: my silly, unhappy name. Oh, if I had only been christened Mary Jane, or Gladys, Muriel, or Beatrice, or Francesca, or Guinevere, or something quite common. But Aurora! Aurora! I'm the only Aurora in London; and everybody knows it. I believe I'm the only Aurora in the world. And it's so horribly easy to rhyme to it!

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Aurora f.

1. A female given name.

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Wikipedia

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewsṓs (“‘dawn’”), which was also personified as a goddess of dawn in PIE religion. Cognates include Ancient Greek Ἠώς (Ēōs)/ἠώς (hēōs), Sanskrit उषस् (uṣás), “‘dawn; Ushas’”) and possibly Old English Ēostre.

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Aurōra (genitive Aurōrae); f, first declension

1. (Roman mythology) Aurora, the goddess of the dawn/morning.

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• aurōra

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Aurora f.

1. (Roman mythology) Aurora
2. A female given name