aureus

English

Aureus from the reign of Valerian (struck 255-256)

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin aureus (“golden; gold coin equivalent to 25 denarii”), noun use of adjective, from aurum (“gold”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔːɹɪəs/

Noun

aureus (plural aurei)

1. A gold coin, minted in the Roman Empire from approximately 100 B.C.E. to 309 C.E., equal to 25 denarii.

Anagrams

• uraeus, uræus

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Latin

Etymology

aurum (“gold”) +‎ -eus (“-ous”, derivational suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈau̯.re.us/, [ˈäu̯reʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈau̯.re.us/, [ˈäːu̯reus]

Adjective

aureus (feminine aurea, neuter aureum); first/second-declension adjective

1. Made of gold, golden; gilded.
2. Of the color of gold, gold-colored; shining or glittering like gold.
3. (figuratively) golden, beautiful, splendid, magnificent, excellent.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	aureus	aurea	aureum		aureī	aureae	aurea
Genitive	aureī	aureae	aureī		aureōrum	aureārum	aureōrum
Dative	aureō		aureō		aureīs
Accusative	aureum	auream	aureum		aureōs	aureās	aurea
Ablative	aureō	aureā	aureō		aureīs
Vocative	auree	aurea	aureum		aureī	aureae	aurea

Synonyms

• (made of gold): aureolus
• (gilded): aureolus, bracteātus
• (of the color of gold): aurātilis, auricolor, aurōsus, aurulentus, chrȳseus
• (splendid, excellent): aureolus

Noun

aureus m (genitive aureī); second declension

1. (numismatics) gold coin equivalent to 25 denarii, aureus (up to the 4th century AD)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	aureus	aureī
Genitive	aureī	aureōrum
Dative	aureō	aureīs
Accusative	aureum	aureōs
Ablative	aureō	aureīs
Vocative	auree	aureī

Synonyms

• solidus

Derived terms

• aureātus
• Aurēlius
• aureolus

Related terms

• auricoctor
• auricolor
• auricomus
• auricomāns
• aurifer
• aurifex
• aurificium
• aurificīna
• aurifluus
• aurifodīna
• aurifrigium
• aurigena
• auriger
• aurigāns
• aurilegulus
• auripigmentum
• aurulentus
• aurum
• aurāria
• aurārius
• aurāta
• aurātilis
• aurātus
• aurātūra
• Aurēlia
• aurēscō
• aurō
• aurōsus
• aurūgineus
• aurūginō
• aurūginōsus
• aurūgō

 

Descendants

Descendants of aureus in other languages

• Catalan: auri
• English: aureus
• Italian: aureo
• Portuguese: áureo

• Proto-Germanic: *aurijaz
  • Old Norse: eyrir
    • Icelandic: eyrir
    • Faroese: oyra
    • Norwegian: øre
    • Swedish: öre
    • Danish: øre
• Spanish: áureo
• Translingual: aureo-

References

• “aureus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “aureus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• aureus 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)
• aureus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “aureus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• aureus in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “aureus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin