aurora

See also: Aurora and auroră

English

An aurora seen above Bear Lake, Alaska, USA

Etymology

From Latin aurora (“dawn”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈɹɔː.ɹə/, /ɔːˈɹɔː.ɹə/
• Rhymes: -ɔːɹə
• Hyphenation: au‧ro‧ra

Noun

aurora (plural auroras or aurorae)

1. An atmospheric phenomenon created by charged particles from the sun striking the upper atmosphere, creating coloured lights in the sky. It is usually named australis or borealis based on whether it is in the Southern or Northern Hemisphere respectively.

Synonyms

• chasma (obsolete, rare)
• polar light

Hyponyms

• (Northern Hemisphere): aurora borealis, northern lights
• (Southern Hemisphere): aurora australis, southern lights

Derived terms

Derived terms

• aurora australis
• aurora borealis
• auroral

• aurorean
• black aurora

Translations

atmospheric phenomenon

• Albanian: aurorë (sq)
• Arabic: شَفَق قُطْبِيّ‎ m (šafaq quṭbiyy)
• Bashkir: һаҙағай (haðağay)
• Bulgarian: северно сияние n (séverno sijánie)
• Catalan: aurora (ca) f polar
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 極光 (zh), 极光 (zh) (jíguāng)

• Czech: polární záře f
• Danish: polarlys n
• Dutch: poollicht (nl) n
• Esperanto: aŭroro
• Faroese: pólalýsi n
• Finnish: revontulet (fi) pl
• French: aurore polaire (fr) f
• German: Polarlicht (de) n
• Greek: σέλας (el) n (sélas)
• Hebrew: זֹהַר הַקֹּטֶב‎ (he) m (zóhar haqótev)
• Hungarian: sarki fény (hu)
• Icelandic: segulljós (is) n pl

• Ido: auroro (io)
• Irish: gealán m
• Japanese: 極光 (ja) (きょくこう, kyokukō), オーロラ (ōrora)
• Korean: 극광 (ko) (geukgwang) (極光 (ko)), 오로라 (ko) (orora)
• Latgalian: pūstumdzīsna, polardzīsna, sarkanis pl
• Latin: aurora (la) f
• Latvian: ziemeļblāzma, polārblāzma, kāvi
• Mansi: сисьной
• Maori: tahunuiarangi, tahu-nui-a-rangi
• Norwegian: polarlys n
• Persian: ارورا‎ (ororâ), شفق قطبی‎ (fa) (šafaq-e qotbi)
• Polish: zorza polarna (pl) f
• Portuguese: aurora (pt) f
• Russian: поля́рное сия́ние (ru) n (poljárnoje sijánije), се́верное сия́ние (ru) n (sévernoje sijánije) (northern lights)
• Spanish: aurora (es) f
• Swedish: polarsken (sv) n
• Turkish: kutup ışığı
• Uyghur: قۇتۇپ نۇرى‎ (qutup nuri)

Anagrams

• aroura

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin aurōra, from an ā-stem extension of Proto-Italic *auzōs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwsōs.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /au̯ˈrɔ.ra/, [äu̯ˈr̺ɔːr̺ä]
• Stress: auròra
• Hyphenation: au‧ro‧ra

Noun

aurora f (plural aurore)

1. dawn, sunrise
2. aurora

Related terms

• aurora boreale
• aurorale

See also

• (times of day) parte del giorno; aurora,‎ alba,‎ mattino/‎mattina,‎ mezzogiorno,‎ pomeriggio,‎ tramonto,‎ crepuscolo,‎ sera,‎ notte,‎ mezzanotte ^{(Category: it:Time) [edit]}

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *auzōs (as Flōra from flōs), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwsōs (“dawn”). In the Proto-Indo-European religion it was personified as the goddess of the dawn, corresponding to the Roman goddess Aurōra, from *h₂ews- (“east”).

Cognates include the Latin auster, Ancient Greek Ἠώς (Ēṓs), ἠώς (ēṓs), the Sanskrit उषस् (uṣás, “dawn”, “Ushas”), and possibly the Old English Ēostre, English east.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /au̯ˈroː.ra/

Noun

aurōra f (genitive aurōrae); first declension

1. dawn, sunrise

Inflection

First declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	aurōra	aurōrae
genitive	aurōrae	aurōrārum
dative	aurōrae	aurōrīs
accusative	aurōram	aurōrās
ablative	aurōrā	aurōrīs
vocative	aurōra	aurōrae

Derived terms

• aurōreus

Related terms

• Aurōra

Descendants

• English: aurora
• French: aurore
• Italian: aurora

• Romanian: aurora
• Spanish: aurora
• Portuguese: aurora

References

• aurora in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• aurora in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• du Cange, Charles (1883), “aurora”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
• “aurora” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• aurora in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• aurora in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

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Portuguese

aurora

Etymology

From Latin aurōra (“dawn, sunrise”), from the Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwsōs (“dawn”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /aw.ˈɾɔ.ɾɐ/
• Hyphenation: au‧ro‧ra

Noun

aurora f (plural auroras)

1. dawn; daybreak
2. Clipping of aurora boreal.

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Romanian

Noun

aurora f

1. definite singular nominative and accusative form of auroră.

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Spanish

Noun

aurora f (plural auroras)

1. aurora