aurorean

English

Etymology

Either the Latin aurōre(us) + the English -an or formed from the two English elements auror(a) +‎ -ean.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɔːˈɹɔəɹɪən/

Adjective

aurorean (comparative more aurorean, superlative most aurorean)

1. Belonging to the dawn, or resembling it in brilliant hue.

   Synonyms: auroral, dawnlike, dilucular, eoan

   • 1783, Richard Griffith (misattributed to Laurence Sterne), The Koran: or, The Life, Character, and Sentiments, of Tria Juncta in Uno in The Posthumous Works of Laurence Sterne, London, Volume 6, p. 50,^[1]

     […] a winged seraph […] sipping aurorean dew, and extracting nectareous essences from aromatic flowers.

   • 1819, John Keats, “Ode to Psyche”, in Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems‎^[2], London: Taylor and Hessey, published 1820, page 118:

     Their lips touch’d not, but had not bade adieu,
     As if disjoined by soft-handed slumber,
     And ready still past kisses to outnumber
     At tender eye-dawn of aurorean love:

   • 1860, Robert Bulwer-Lytton (as Owen Meredith), “Lucile”, London: Chapman and Hall, Part 2, Canto 5, stanza 16, p. 300,^[3]

     […] There, hover’d in light,

     That image aloft, o’er the shapeless and bright

     And Aurorean clouds, […]

   • 1880, Algernon Charles Swinburne, “Birthday Ode”, in Songs of the Springtides,‎^[4], London: Chatto and Windus, page 119:

     When the earliest dews impearled
     The front of all the world
     Ringed with aurorean aureole of the sun,

   • 1896, George Santayana, Sonnet 50 in Sonnets and Other Verses, New York: Stone and Kimball, p. 54,^[5]

     Though no dawn burst, and no aurorean choir

     Sing GLORIA DEO when the heavens ope,

2. (mythology) Of or relating to Aurora, goddess of dawn in Roman mythology.
3. (astronomy) Of or relating to the asteroid (94) Aurora.

Translations

belonging to or resembling the dawn

• Welsh: awroraidd

References

• NED I (A–B; 1st ed., 1888), § 1 (A), page 567/3, “Aurorean, a.”