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area

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See also: área, àrea, arẽa, and äreä

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Etymology

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Proto-Indo-European *h₂eHs-der.
Proto-Italic *āzeā?
Proto-Indo-European *h₂erh₃-der.
Proto-Italic *āreā?
Latin ārealbor.
English area

    Learned borrowing from Latin ārea.

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    area (plural areas or (archaic) areæ)

    2. (mathematics) A measure of the extent of a surface; it is measured in square units.
      • 2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns‎[1]:
        It is about 4.5 million square kilometers in area and holds the world’s third largest collection of ice after Antarctica and Greenland.
    3. A particular geographic region.
      • 2022 March 8, Sarah DeWeerdt, “Barcelona-style “superblocks” could make a surprising number of cities greener and less car-centric”, in Anthropocene Magazine‎[2], archived from the original on 20 October 2022:
        Eggimann used a computer algorithm to analyze data from the open-source geographic database OpenStreetMap and automatically detect areas with the superblock potential. He applied this analysis to 5 km x 5 km areas of the city center in 18 different cities around the world.
    4. Any particular extent of surface, especially an empty or unused extent.
      The photo is a little dark in that area.
    5. The extent, scope, or range of an object or concept.
      The plans are a bit vague in that area.
      • 2013 September-October, Rob Dorit, “Making Life from Scratch”, in American Scientist:
        Today, a new area of research that similarly aims to mimic a complex biological phenomenon—life itself—is taking off. Synthetic biology, a seductive experimental subfield in the life sciences, seems tantalizingly to promise custom-designed life created in the laboratory.
      • 2015 July 24, Gareth Cook, “The Singular Mind of Terry Tao”, in The New York Times Magazine‎[3], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 March 2020:
        The Green-Tao theorem on primes was a similar collaboration. Green is a specialist in an area called number theory, and Tao originally trained in an area called harmonic analysis.
    6. (UK) An open space, below ground level, giving access to the basement of a house, and typically separated from the pavement by railings. [from 18th c.]
      • 1790, Helen Maria Williams, Julia, Routledge, published 2016, page 95:
        A boy seized it, whom she bribed with a shilling to relinquish his prize, which she was taking home, when it escaped from her hand, and fell down the area of a house.
      • 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 4, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:
        This was so favourably received by the milkman and beadle that he would immediately have been pushed into the area if I had not held his pinafore while Richard and Mr. Guppy ran down through the kitchen to catch him when he should be released.
      • 1865, Anthony Trollope, “LXVI. Lady Monk's Plan”, in Can You Forgive Her?‎[4]:
        He crept down the back stairs; but as he could not quite condescend to escape through the area, he was forced to emerge upon the hall, and here his aunt pounced upon him, coming out of the breakfast-parlour.
      • 1908, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans:
        We sprang through into the dark passage, closing the area door behind us.
      • 1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 15: Circe]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 409:
        A drunken navvy grips with both hands the railings of an area, lurching heavily.
    7. (soccer) Penalty box; penalty area.
      • 2010 December 29, Mark Vesty, “Wigan 2-2 Arsenal”, in BBC:
        Bendtner's goal-bound shot was well saved by goalkeeper Ali Al Habsi but fell to Arsahvin on the edge of the area and the Russian swivelled, shaped his body and angled a sumptuous volley into the corner.
    8. (slang) Genitals.
      • 2003 October 2, “The One Where Ross Is Fine”, in Friends, season 10, episode 2, spoken by Frank Buffay Jr. (Giovanni Ribisi), via NBC:
        But what do I do when the third one runs at me with his bike helmet on? I got no more hands to protect my area!

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    area (plural areas)

    1. area

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    Fala

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    Etymology

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    From Old Galician-Portuguese arẽa, from Latin arēnā (“sand”). Cognate with Portuguese areia and Spanish arena.

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    • IPA(key): /aˈɾea/
    • Rhymes: -ea
    • Syllabification: a‧re‧a

    Noun

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    area f (plural areas)

    1. sand

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    • Valeš, Miroslav (2021), Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎[5], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

    Galician

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    Area longa ("Long beach"), O Vicedo, Galicia

    Etymology

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    From Old Galician-Portuguese arẽa, from Latin arēnā (“sand”). Cognate with Portuguese areia and Spanish arena.

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    • IPA(key): /aˈɾea/ [aˈɾe.ɐ]
    • Rhymes: -ea
    • Hyphenation: a‧re‧a

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    area f (plural areas)

    1. sand (a grain)
    2. (figuratively) a grain of salt
    3. sand (collectively)
      Synonyms: xabre, saibro
    4. (dated) beach, cove
      Synonyms: areal, praia, arnela

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    Indonesian

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    Etymology

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    Learned borrowing from Latin ārea.

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    arèa (plural area-area)

    1. area:
      1. a particular geographic region
        Synonym: daerah
      2. any particular extent of surface, especially an empty or unused extent
        Synonym: kawasan

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    Italian

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    Etymology

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    Learned borrowing from Latin ārea. Doublet of aia (“threshing floor”).

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    • IPA(key): /ˈa.re.a/
    • Rhymes: -area
    • Hyphenation: à‧re‧a

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    area f (plural aree)

    1. area, surface
    2. land, ground
    3. field, sector
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    Latin

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      ārea f (genitive āreae); first declension

      1. a piece of level ground, a vacant place (esp. in the town)
      2. ground for a house, a building-spot
      3. (figuratively) a vacant space around or in a house, a court
      4. (figuratively) an open space for games, an open play-ground
      5. (figuratively) a threshing floor
      6. (figuratively) the halo around the sun or moon
      7. (figuratively) a bed or border in a garden
      8. (figuratively) a fowling-floor
      9. (figuratively) a burying-ground, church-yard
      10. (figuratively) a bald spot upon the head, baldness

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      First-declension noun.

      singular plural
      nominative ārea āreae
      genitive āreae āreārum
      dative āreae āreīs
      accusative āream āreās
      ablative āreā āreīs
      vocative ārea āreae

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      Descendants

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      • Aragonese: era
      • Aromanian: aryi
      • Asturian: era, yera
      • Italian: aia
      • Ladin: aa
      • Old French: aire, eire
      • Old Galician-Portuguese: eira
      • Old Occitan:
      • Piedmontese: ajra
      • Romanian: arie
      • Spanish: era
      • Venetan: ara, era

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      Further reading

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      • “area”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
      • “area”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
      • "area", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
      • “area”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
      • “area”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
      • “area”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
      1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 53
      2. ^ Cohen, Paul S. (2014), “Some Hittite and Armenian Reduplications and Their (P)IE Ramifications”, in Indo-European Linguistics

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      Etymology

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        Derived from Spanish área.

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        area

        1. area

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        area f (plural areas)

        1. pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of área

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        Etymology

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        Learned borrowing from Latin ārea (literally “vacant piece of level ground”).

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        area c

        1. (geometry) area; a measure of squared distance

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        Declension of area
        nominative genitive
        singular indefinite area areas
        definite arean areans
        plural indefinite areor areors
        definite areorna areornas
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