aural

English

Etymology 1

From Latin auralis, from auris (“ear”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɔːɹəl/
  • Rhymes: -ɔːɹəl
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɔɹəl/
  • (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈɑɹəl/
• (for some speakers, to distinguish from oral; Latinate) IPA^(key): /aʊɹəl/ or /ˈɑ(ː)ɹəl/
• Homophone: oral (unless distinguished as above)

Adjective

aural (comparative more aural, superlative most aural)

1. Of or pertaining to the ear.
   • 1853 September 17, “Metropolitan Hospitals & Medical Schools”, in The Lancet, volume 62, number 1568, →DOI, page 268:

     The aural surgeon attends Mondays and Thursdays, at half-past one.

2. Of or pertaining to sound.
   • 2017 December 22, Rachel Aroesti, “The best albums of 2017, No 1: St Vincent – Masseduction”, in the Guardian‎^[1]:

     Clark made the album with producer Jack Antonoff, current collaborator of choice for Taylor Swift and Lorde. His involvement didn’t have a huge aural impact – the thrillingly disjointed but melodically gorgeous St Vincent sound remained intact – but his inclination for taking real-life trauma and fashioning it into pop took the album a step beyond Clark’s previous work.

   • 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 274:

     He was alive to every creak and dunt, the thinness of the walls, as if the tenement block was a kind of aural panopticon that funnelled every sound to the other residents, let everyone eavesdrop on their business.

Synonyms

• auric (obsolete)

Derived terms

• aurally
• aural toilet
• aural wallpaper
• binaural
• cervicoaural
• dextraural
• intraaural
• sinistraural
• supraaural

 

Translations

of or pertaining to the ear

• Arabic: أُذُنِيّ (ʔuḏuniyy)
• Belarusian: вушны́ (vušný)
• Bulgarian: ушен (ušen)
• Czech: ušní (cs)
• Esperanto: orela
• Finnish: korva-
• French: auriculaire (fr)
• German: Ohren- (de)
• Icelandic: eyrna-, heyrnar-
• Irish: cluasach
• Italian: auricolare (it)
• Polish: uszny (pl)
• Russian: ушно́й (ru) (ušnój)
• Slovak: ušný (sk)
• Spanish: auditivo (es)
• Swedish: öron- (prefix)
• Ukrainian: вушни́й (vušnýj)

of or pertaining to sound

• Belarusian: слухавы́ (sluxavý)
• Bulgarian: звуков (zvukov), слухов (sluhov)
• Czech: sluchový (cs)
• Esperanto: sona, aŭda
• Finnish: ääni-, auditiivinen (fi)
• French: auditif (fr), aural (fr)
• German: akustisch (de), auditiv (de), Gehör- (de), Hör- (de)
• Polish: audialny, słuchowy (pl), audytywny
• Russian: слухово́й (ru) (sluxovój) (hearing), звуково́й (ru) (zvukovój) (sound)
• Ukrainian: слухови́й (sluxovýj)

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Translations to be checked

• Irish: ^{(please verify)} cluas-, ^{(please verify)} clos-, ^{(please verify)} éisteachta
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: ^{(please verify)} hewayî (ku)

• Manx: ^{(please verify)} cleayshagh

Etymology 2

From Latin aura (“moving air, breeze, vital air”) +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɔːɹəl/
  • Rhymes: -ɔːɹəl
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈoɹəl/
  • (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈɑ(ː)ɹəl/
• Homophone: oral

Adjective

aural (comparative more aural, superlative most aural)

1. Of or pertaining to an aura.

Synonyms

• auric

Related terms

• aura

Translations

of or pertaining to an aura

• Esperanto: aŭra

Anagrams

• Laura, laura

French

Etymology

From Latin auris (“ear”) +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o.ʁal/, /ɔ.ʁal/

Adjective

aural (feminine aurale, masculine plural auraux, feminine plural aurales)

1. (relational) sound; aural

Anagrams

• laura