aurora

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See also: Aurora and auroră

English

An aurora seen above Bear Lake, Alaska, USA

Etymology

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From Latin aurōra (“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.

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Italian

Etymology

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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

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See also

Latin

Etymology

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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

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

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Descendants

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

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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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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 and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Portuguese

aurora

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin aurōra (“dawn, sunrise”), from the (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwsōs (“dawn”).

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: au‧ro‧ra

Noun

aurora f (plural auroras)

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

Romanian

Noun

aurora f

  1. definite nominative/accusative singular of auroră

Spanish

Noun

aurora f (plural auroras)

  1. aurora

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