area

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See also: área, àrea, arẽa, and äreä

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin area.

Pronunciation

Noun

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area (plural areas or areæ)

  1. (mathematics) A measure of the extent of a surface; it is measured in square units.
  2. A particular geographic region.
  3. Any particular extent of surface, especially an empty or unused extent.
    The photo is a little dark in that area.
  4. The extent, scope, or range of an object or concept.
    • 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.
    The plans are a bit vague in that area.
  5. (British) An open space, below ground level, between the front of a house and the pavement.
    (Can we date this quote?), Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans:
    We sprang through into the dark passage, closing the area door behind us.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Charles Dickens to this entry?)
  6. (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.
  7. (slang) Genitals.
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soccer: penalty area — see penalty area
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Afrikaans

Noun

area (plural areas)

  1. area

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Galician

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

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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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ārea. Doublet of Italian aia (“threshing floor”).

Noun

area f (plural aree)

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

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Latin

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

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
  11. vocative singular of ārea

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case 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

  • Aragonese: era
  • Aromanian: aryi
  • Asturian: era, yera
  • Catalan: àrea (borrowing), era
  • English: area
  • French: aire, are (borrowing)
  • Friulian: aree (borrowing)
  • Galician: área (borrowing), eira
  • Italian: area (borrowing), aia

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Noun

(deprecated template usage) āreā f

  1. ablative singular of ārea

References

  • “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’s 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. ^ Cohen, Paul S. (2014) “Some Hittite and Armenian Reduplications and Their (P)IE Ramifications”, in Indo-European Linguistics

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Papiamentu

Etymology

From Spanish área and English area.

Noun

area

  1. area

Portuguese

Noun

area f (plural areas)

  1. Obsolete spelling of área

Swedish

Noun

area c

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

Declension

Declension of area 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative area arean areor areorna
Genitive areas areans areors areornas
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