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English

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Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin aera.

Pronunciation

Noun

era (plural eras)

  1. A time period of indeterminate length, generally more than one year.
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 6, in The China Governess‎[1]:
      Even in an era when individuality in dress is a cult, his clothes were noticeable. He was wearing a hard hat of the low round kind favoured by hunting men, and with it a black duffle-coat lined with white.
    • 2012 January, Philip E. Mirowski, “Harms to Health from the Pursuit of Profits”, in American Scientist‎[2], volume 100, number 1, page 87:
      In an era when political leaders promise deliverance from decline through America’s purported preeminence in scientific research, the news that science is in deep trouble in the United States has been as unwelcome as a diagnosis of leukemia following the loss of health insurance.
  2. (geology) A unit of time, smaller than eons and greater than periods.

Synonyms

Coordinate terms

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

Asturian

Etymology

From Late Latin aera.

Noun

era f (plural eres)

  1. era (time period)

Synonyms

Basque

Noun

era ?

  1. manner

Catalan

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Late Latin aera.

Noun

era f (plural eres)

  1. era (time period)
    Synonym: època

Etymology 2

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Noun

era f (plural eres)

  1. Small section of arable land destined for cultivation.

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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Further reading

Chuukese

Verb

era

  1. (intransitive) to say

Related terms

Esperanto

Pronunciation

Adjective

era (accusative singular eran, plural eraj, accusative plural erajn)

  1. adjective form of ero (“bit, piece”).

Fala

Verb

era

  1. third-person singular imperfect indicative of sel
    • 2000, Domingo Frades Gaspar, Vamus a falal: Notas pâ coñocel y platical en nosa fala, Editora regional da Extremadura, Theme IV, Chapter 1: Non Diptongación da “E” i a “O” en Nossa Fala:
      Tampocu era normal en o leonés antiguu, según os estudius dos escritus i textus estudiaus, por ejemplu por Menéndez Pidal, quen tamén viñu i estudió o mañegu.
      Neither was it normal in Old Leonese, according to studies of the writings and the texts studied, by Menéndez Pidal for example, who also came and studied Mañego.

Galician

Verb

era

  1. first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of ser

Interlingua

Noun

era (plural eras)

  1. era

Italian

Etymology

From Late Latin aera.

Noun

era f (plural ere)

  1. age, epoch, period
  2. (geology) era

Verb

era

  1. third-person singular imperfect indicative of essere

See also

Anagrams

Ladino

Verb

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  1. first-person singular imperfect indicative of ser
  2. third-person singular imperfect indicative of ser

Latin

Pronunciation

Noun

era f (genitive erae); first declension

  1. mistress (of a house, with respect to the servants)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative era erae
Genitive erae erārum
Dative erae erīs
Accusative eram erās
Ablative erā erīs
Vocative era erae

Luganda

Conjunction

era

  1. and then (only used for occurrences in chronological order)

See also

References

The Essentials of Luganda, J. D. Chesswas, 4th edition. Oxford University Press: Nairobi. 1967, p. 95.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

Verb

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  1. (archaic)(nonstandard) Present tense plural form of vera

Occitan

Article

era f

  1. feminine singular of eth

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *aizō.

Noun

ēra f

  1. honour
  2. dignity

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Middle Dutch: êre
    • Dutch: eer
      • Afrikaans: eer
      • Negerhollands: eer
    • Limburgish: ieër

Further reading

  • “ēra”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old High German

FWOTD – 7 April 2014

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *aizō, whence also Old English ār, Old Norse eir.

Pronunciation

Noun

ēra f

  1. honour
  2. renown
  3. respect

Declension

Declension of ēra (ō-stem)
case singular plural
nominative ēra ērā
accusative ēra ērā
genitive ēra ērōno
dative ēru ērōm

Descendants

References

  • Henry Frowde, An Old High German Primer
  • Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer with grammar, notes and glossary, Second Edition

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *aizō, whence also Old English ār, Old Norse eir.

Pronunciation

Noun

ēra f

  1. honour
  2. renown
  3. glory

Declension

Declension of era (feminine ō-stem)
singular plural
nominative era era
accusative era era
genitive era, eru, ero erono
dative eru, ero, era eron, erum, erun
instrumental — —


Old Tupi

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʔɛɾa/, /ˈtɛɾa/

Noun

era

  1. name

Usage notes

  • The stem era could never be used inside a sentence without a prefix. The absolute form tera was used whenever the noun was not possessed.

References

Polish

Pronunciation

Noun

era f

  1. era

Declension

Declension of era
singular plural
nominative era ery
genitive ery er
dative erze erom
accusative erę ery
instrumental erą erami
locative erze erach
vocative ero ery

Related terms

Portuguese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Inflected form of ser (“to be”).

Verb

era

  1. first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of ser

Etymology 2

From Late Latin aera.

Noun

era f (plural s)

  1. era (time period of indeterminate length, generally more than one year)
  2. (archaeology) age (period of human prehistory)
  3. (geology) era (unit of time, smaller than aeons and greater than periods)
Synonyms
  • (indeterminately lengthy time period): época
  • (period of human prehistory): idade
Derived terms

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Rapa Nui

Pronoun

era

  1. that

Romanian

Pronunciation

Verb

era

  1. third-person singular imperfect indicative of fi: he/she was (being)
    el era pierdut
    he was lost
    el era sarcastic
    he was being sarcastic

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin aera.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ěːra/
  • Hyphenation: e‧ra

Noun

éra f (Cyrillic spelling е́ра)

  1. era

Declension

Declension of era
singular plural
nominative éra ere
genitive ere ȇrā
dative eri erama
accusative eru ere
vocative ero ere
locative eri erama
instrumental erom erama

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: e‧ra

Etymology 1

see ser

Verb

era

  1. First-person singular (yo) imperfect indicative form of ser.
  2. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperfect indicative form of ser.
  3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) imperfect indicative form of ser.

See also

Etymology 2

From Late Latin aera.

Noun

era f (plural eras)

  1. era
  2. (geology) era

Etymology 3

Inherited from Latin ārea. Compare the borrowed doublet área.

Noun

era f (plural eras)

  1. threshing floor
  2. tipple

Swedish

Alternative forms

Etymology 1

From Old Norse yðr, yðar, from Proto-Germanic *izwiz.

Pronoun

era (singular form er)

  1. your, yours (multiple owners of more than one object)
  2. you (only in this use:)
    Era jävla idioter!
    You bloody idiots!
    Era små fan!
    You little bastards!

Declension

Swedish personal pronouns
Number Person Type Nominative Oblique Possessive
common neuter plural
singular first — jag mig, mej3 min mitt mina
second — du dig, dej3 din ditt dina
third masculine (person) han honom, han2, en5 hans
feminine (person) hon henne, na5 hennes
gender-neutral (person)1 hen hen, henom7 hens
common (noun) den den dess
neuter (noun) det det dess
indefinite man or en4 en ens
reflexive — sig, sej3 sin sitt sina
plural first — vi oss vår, våran2 vårt, vårat2 våra
second — ni er er, eran2, ers6 ert, erat2 era
archaic I eder eder, eders6 edert edra
third — de, dom3 dem, dom3 deras
reflexive — sig, sej3 sin sitt sina
1Neologism. Usage has increased since 2010, and has gained widespread acceptance today.
2Informal
4Dialectal, also used lately as an alternative to man, to avoid association to the male gender.
5Informal, somewhat dialectal
6Formal address
7Discouraged by the Swedish Language Council

Etymology 2

From Latin aera.

Pronunciation

Noun

era c

  1. era

Declension

Declension of era 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative era eran eror erorna
Genitive eras erans erors erornas

Anagrams

Tause

Noun

era

  1. water

See also

  • ira (Weirate and Deirate dialects)

References

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