aurora

See also: Aurora and auroră

English

An aurora seen above Bear Lake, Alaska, USA

Etymology

From Latin aurōra (“dawn”). Doublet of Eos.

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
• aurora glass
• auroral

• aurora sauce
• aurorean
• black aurora

Translations

atmospheric phenomenon

• Albanian: aurorë (sq)
• Arabic: شَفَق قُطْبِيّ‎ m (šafaq quṭbiyy)
• Bashkir: һаҙағай (haðağay)
• Bulgarian: се́верно сия́ние 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
• Estonian: virmalised pl
• Faroese: pólalýsi n
• Finnish: revontulet (fi) pl
• French: aurore polaire (fr) f
• Galician: aurora (gl) 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 (ja) (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 (sisʹnoj)
• Maori: tahunuiarangi, tahu-nui-a-rangi, ngā kurakura o Hinenuitepō
• Norwegian: polarlys n
• Persian: ارورا‎ (ororâ), شفق قطبی‎ (fa) (šafaq-e qotbi), اوشه‎ (uše)
• 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
• Ukrainian: поля́рне ся́йво n (poljárne sjájvo)
• 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]
• Hyphenation: au‧rò‧ra

Noun

aurora f (plural aurore)

1. dawn, sunrise

   Antonym: tramonto

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 the Old English Ēostre (modern Easter), English east.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /au̯ˈroː.ra/, [äu̯ˈɾoːrä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /au̯ˈro.ra/, [ɑu̯ˈrɔːɾɑ]

Noun

aurōra f (genitive aurōrae); first declension

1. dawn, sunrise

Declension

First-declension noun.

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: auroră
• 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
• aurora in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• aurora in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• 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 nominative/accusative singular of auroră

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin aurōra.

Noun

aurora f (plural auroras)

1. aurora

Derived terms

• aurora austral
• aurora boreal

Related terms

• auroral

Further reading

• “aurora” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.