aura

See also: Aura, AURA, àura, aură, aurá, and aurą

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

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

  • Audio (Southern England)

    (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔːɹə

Noun

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.

Derived terms

• angel aura
• aqua aura
• auraed
• auratic
• flame aura
• opal aura
• pearl aura

 

Translations

the distinctive atmosphere or quality associated with someone or something

• Bulgarian: атмосфера (bg) (atmosfera), излъчване (bg) (izlǎčvane)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 靈氣／灵气 (zh) (língqì)

• French: aura (fr) f
• German: Aura (de) f
• Greek: αύρα (el) f (ávra)
• Italian: aura (it) f
• Japanese: 霊気 (ja) (れいき, reiki), 雰囲気 (ja) (ふんいき, fun'iki), オーラ (ja) (ōra)
• Korean: 영기(靈氣) (yeonggi), 령기(靈氣) (ryeonggi) (North Korea), 분위기(雰圍氣) (ko) (bunwigi)
• Polish: aura (pl) f, atmosfera (pl) f, klimat (pl) m, nastrój (pl) m
• Russian: атмосфе́ра (ru) f (atmosféra), а́ура (ru) f (áura)
• Spanish: aura (es) f
• Swedish: aura (sv) c
• Welsh: awra m or f

an invisible force surrounding a living creature

• Bulgarian: аура (aura)
• Catalan: aura (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 靈氣／灵气 (zh) (língqì)

• Czech: aura (cs) f
• Danish: aura
• Dutch: aura (nl) f
• Finnish: aura (fi)
• French: aura (fr)
• Greek: αύρα (el) f (ávra)
• Icelandic: ára (is) f, geislahjúpur m
• Italian: aura (it)
• Japanese: オーラ (ja) (ōra)
• Korean: 오라 (ora)
• Polish: aura (pl) f, pole biologiczne n
• Portuguese: aura (pt)
• Spanish: aura (es)
• Swedish: aura (sv) c
• Welsh: awra m or f

perceptual disturbance experienced by some migraine sufferers

• Swedish: aura (sv) c

sensation experienced by some people with epilepsy before a seizure

• Polish: aura (pl) f

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.

Anagrams

• Aaru, Arau

Catalan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

aura f (plural aures)

1. gentle breeze

   Synonym: ora

2. popularity
3. aura

Further reading

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

Dalmatian

Noun

aura f (plural aure)

1. Alternative form of jaura

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑu̯.raː/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: au‧ra

Noun

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

1. aura

Finnish

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Traditional kehäaura

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

Noun

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)

Declension

Inflection of aura (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation)
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.

Possessive forms of aura (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative aurani aurani accusative nom. aurani aurani gen. aurani genitive aurani aurojeni aurainirare partitive auraani aurojani inessive aurassani auroissani elative aurastani auroistani illative auraani auroihini adessive aurallani auroillani ablative auraltani auroiltani allative auralleni auroilleni essive auranani auroinani translative aurakseni auroikseni abessive aurattani auroittani instructive — — comitative — auroineni second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative aurasi aurasi accusative nom. aurasi aurasi gen. aurasi genitive aurasi aurojesi auraisirare partitive auraasi aurojasi inessive aurassasi auroissasi elative aurastasi auroistasi illative auraasi auroihisi adessive aurallasi auroillasi ablative auraltasi auroiltasi allative aurallesi auroillesi essive auranasi auroinasi translative auraksesi auroiksesi abessive aurattasi auroittasi instructive — — comitative — auroinesi first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative auramme auramme accusative nom. auramme auramme gen. auramme genitive auramme aurojemme auraimmerare partitive auraamme aurojamme inessive aurassamme auroissamme elative aurastamme auroistamme illative auraamme auroihimme adessive aurallamme auroillamme ablative auraltamme auroiltamme allative aurallemme auroillemme essive auranamme auroinamme translative auraksemme auroiksemme abessive aurattamme auroittamme instructive — — comitative — auroinemme second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative auranne auranne accusative nom. auranne auranne gen. auranne genitive auranne aurojenne aurainnerare partitive auraanne aurojanne inessive aurassanne auroissanne elative aurastanne auroistanne illative auraanne auroihinne adessive aurallanne auroillanne ablative auraltanne auroiltanne allative aurallenne auroillenne essive aurananne auroinanne translative auraksenne auroiksenne abessive aurattanne auroittanne instructive — — comitative — auroinenne third-person possessor singular plural nominative auransa auransa accusative nom. auransa auransa gen. auransa genitive auransa aurojensa aurainsarare partitive auraansa aurojaan aurojansa inessive aurassaan aurassansa auroissaan auroissansa elative aurastaan aurastansa auroistaan auroistansa illative auraansa auroihinsa adessive aurallaan aurallansa auroillaan auroillansa ablative auraltaan auraltansa auroiltaan auroiltansa allative auralleen aurallensa auroilleen auroillensa essive auranaan auranansa auroinaan auroinansa translative aurakseen auraksensa auroikseen auroiksensa abessive aurattaan aurattansa auroittaan auroittansa instructive — — comitative — auroineen auroinensa

Derived terms

• aura-auto
• aurakulma
• aurakäännös
• aurankukka
• aurankurki
• auranvannas
• aurata
• hankoaura
• jankkoaura
• kaariaura
• karja-aura
• kehäaura
• koukkuaura
• kurkiaura
• kyntöaura
• kärkiaura
• kääntöaura
• lautasaura
• lumiaura
• multausaura
• oja-aura
• vakoaura
• vetoaura

 

Further reading

• “1. aura”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (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

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin aura.

Noun

aura

1. aura

Declension

Inflection of aura (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation)
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.

Possessive forms of aura (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative aurani aurani accusative nom. aurani aurani gen. aurani genitive aurani aurojeni aurainirare partitive auraani aurojani inessive aurassani auroissani elative aurastani auroistani illative auraani auroihini adessive aurallani auroillani ablative auraltani auroiltani allative auralleni auroilleni essive auranani auroinani translative aurakseni auroikseni abessive aurattani auroittani instructive — — comitative — auroineni second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative aurasi aurasi accusative nom. aurasi aurasi gen. aurasi genitive aurasi aurojesi auraisirare partitive auraasi aurojasi inessive aurassasi auroissasi elative aurastasi auroistasi illative auraasi auroihisi adessive aurallasi auroillasi ablative auraltasi auroiltasi allative aurallesi auroillesi essive auranasi auroinasi translative auraksesi auroiksesi abessive aurattasi auroittasi instructive — — comitative — auroinesi first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative auramme auramme accusative nom. auramme auramme gen. auramme genitive auramme aurojemme auraimmerare partitive auraamme aurojamme inessive aurassamme auroissamme elative aurastamme auroistamme illative auraamme auroihimme adessive aurallamme auroillamme ablative auraltamme auroiltamme allative aurallemme auroillemme essive auranamme auroinamme translative auraksemme auroiksemme abessive aurattamme auroittamme instructive — — comitative — auroinemme second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative auranne auranne accusative nom. auranne auranne gen. auranne genitive auranne aurojenne aurainnerare partitive auraanne aurojanne inessive aurassanne auroissanne elative aurastanne auroistanne illative auraanne auroihinne adessive aurallanne auroillanne ablative auraltanne auroiltanne allative aurallenne auroillenne essive aurananne auroinanne translative auraksenne auroiksenne abessive aurattanne auroittanne instructive — — comitative — auroinenne third-person possessor singular plural nominative auransa auransa accusative nom. auransa auransa gen. auransa genitive auransa aurojensa aurainsarare partitive auraansa aurojaan aurojansa inessive aurassaan aurassansa auroissaan auroissansa elative aurastaan aurastansa auroistaan auroistansa illative auraansa auroihinsa adessive aurallaan aurallansa auroillaan auroillansa ablative auraltaan auraltansa auroiltaan auroiltansa allative auralleen aurallensa auroilleen auroillensa essive auranaan auranansa auroinaan auroinansa translative aurakseen auraksensa auroikseen auroiksensa abessive aurattaan aurattansa auroittaan auroittansa instructive — — comitative — auroineen auroinensa

Further reading

• “2. aura”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (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

Anagrams

• raau, uraa

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o.ʁa/, /ɔ.ʁa/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin aura.

Noun

aura f (plural auras)

1. aura

Etymology 2

Verb

aura

1. third-person singular future of avoir

Further reading

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

Hungarian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

aura (plural aurák)

1. aura

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	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
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)

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.

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 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

Noun

aura f (plural aure)

1. aura
2. light breeze

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

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.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	aura	aurae
Genitive	aurae	aurārum
Dative	aurae	aurīs
Accusative	auram	aurās
Ablative	aurā	aurīs
Vocative	aura	aurae

Synonyms

• āēr
• ventus
• spīritus

Descendants

• 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
  • *auridiāre

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^[3], 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)
    

Old Norse

Etymology

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

aura

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

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin aura.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaw.ra/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -awra
• Syllabification: au‧ra

Noun

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

Declension

Declension of aura

	singular	plural
nominative	aura	aury
genitive	aury	aur
dative	aurze	aurom
accusative	aurę	aury
instrumental	aurą	aurami
locative	aurze	aurach
vocative	auro	aury

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈaw.ɾɐ/ [ˈaʊ̯.ɾɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈaw.ɾɐ/ [ˈaʊ̯.ɾɐ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈaw.ɾa/ [ˈaʊ̯.ɾa]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈaw.ɾɐ/

• Rhymes: -awɾɐ
• Hyphenation: au‧ra

Noun

aura f (plural auras)

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

Romansch

Alternative forms

• ora (Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader)

Etymology

Inherited from Latin aura.

Noun

aura f

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) weather

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)

1. aura

Etymology 2

Noun

aura f (plural auras)

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

Usage notes

• 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.

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/

Noun

aura c

1. aura

Declension

Declension of aura
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	aura	auran	auror	aurorna
Genitive	auras	aurans	aurors	aurornas

References

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

Weyewa

Noun

aura

1. (Loli) vow, oath, pledge

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