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4-letter words (1 found)

AURA,

3-letter words (1 found)

AUA,

2-letter words (3 found)

AA,AR,UR,

You can make 5 words from aura according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of aura

aura uara arua raua uraa ruaa auar uaar aaur aaur uaar auar arau raau aaru aaru raau arau uraa ruaa uara aura raua arua

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Definitions and meaning of aura

aura

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin aura (“a breeze, a breath of air, the air”), from Ancient Greek αὔρα (aúra, “breeze, soft wind”), from ἀήρ (aḗr, “air”). Doublet of east, auster, air, and aria.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɔː.ɹə/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈɔɹ.ə/
  • Rhymes: -ɔːɹə

Noun

aura (plural aurae or auræ or auras)

  1. Distinctive atmosphere or quality associated with something.
    Synonyms: air, feeling, mood, spirit, vibe
  2. (parapsychology) An invisible force surrounding a living creature.
  3. (medicine) Perceptual disturbance experienced by some migraine sufferers before a migraine headache.
  4. (medicine) Telltale sensation experienced by some people with epilepsy before a seizure.

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

  • “aura”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “aura”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
  • “aura”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

  • Aaru, Arau

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin aura, from Ancient Greek αὔρα (aúra, “breeze, soft wind”). Doublet of the inherited ora.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈaw.ɾə]
  • IPA(key): (Valencian) [ˈaw.ɾa]

Noun

aura f (plural aures)

  1. gentle breeze
    Synonym: ora
  2. popularity
  3. aura

Further reading

  • “aura” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Dalmatian

Noun

aura f (plural aure)

  1. Alternative form of jaura

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin aura, from Ancient Greek αὔρα (aúra).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɑu̯.raː/
  • Hyphenation: au‧ra

Noun

aura f (plural aura's, diminutive auraatje n)

  1. aura

Finnish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɑu̯rɑ/, [ˈɑ̝u̯rɑ̝]
  • Rhymes: -ɑurɑ
  • Syllabification(key): au‧ra

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *atra (compare Estonian ader), borrowed from Proto-Germanic *arþrą (compare Old Norse arðr), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂érh₃trom.

Noun

aura

  1. plough, plow (agricultural tool)
    Synonym: kyntöaura
  2. plough, plow (device used to clear snow)
    Synonym: lumiaura
  3. wedge (group of birds flying in a V-shaped formation)
  4. (skiing, ski jumping) wedge (pointing the skis inwards to slow down)
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
  • “1. aura”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin aura.

Noun

aura

  1. aura
Declension
Further reading
  • “2. aura”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

Anagrams

  • raau, uraa

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /o.ʁa/, /ɔ.ʁa/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin aura.

Noun

aura f (plural auras)

  1. aura

Etymology 2

Verb

aura

  1. third-person singular future of avoir

Further reading

  • “aura”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin aura (“breeze, smell”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɒurɒ]
  • Hyphenation: au‧ra
  • Rhymes: -rɒ

Noun

aura (plural aurák)

  1. aura

Declension

Further reading

  • aura in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)

Indonesian

Etymology

From English aura, from Latin aura (“a breeze, a breath of air, the air”), from Ancient Greek αὔρα (aúra, “breeze, soft wind”), from ἀήρ (aḗr, “air”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈau̯ra]
  • Hyphenation: au‧ra

Noun

aura (plural a-, first-person possessive auraku, second-person possessive auramu, third-person possessive auranya)

  1. aura,
    1. an invisible force surrounding a living creature.
    2. (medicine) perceptual disturbance experienced by some migraine sufferers before a migraine headache.
    3. (medicine) telltale sensation experienced by some people with epilepsy before a seizure.

Further reading

  • “aura” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin aura, from Ancient Greek αὔρα (aúra, “breeze, soft wind”). Doublet of the inherited ora.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈaw.ra/
  • Rhymes: -awra
  • Hyphenation: àu‧ra

Noun

aura f (plural aure)

  1. aura
  2. light breeze

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek αὔρα (aúra).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈau̯.ra/, [ˈäu̯rä]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈau̯.ra/, [ˈäːu̯rä]

Noun

aura f (genitive aurae); first declension

  1. air
  2. breeze
    • 13 CE, Ovid, Epistulae ex Ponto 2.3.25–28:
      Ēn ego, nōn paucīs quondam mūnītus amīcīs,
           dum flāvit vēlīs aura secunda meīs,
      ut fera nimbōsō tumuērunt aequora ventō,
           in mediīs lacerā nāve relinquor aquīs.
      Behold me! once supported by many friends—while a favouring breeze filled my sails now that the wild seas have been swelled by the stormy wind, I am abandoned on a shattered bark in the midst of the waters.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Synonyms

  • āēr
  • ventus
  • spīritus

Descendants

  • Balkan Romance:
    • Aromanian: avrã
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: ora (ety. 3)
  • North Italian:
    • Piedmontese: òra
    • Romansch: aura, ora
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Catalan: ora
    • Franco-Provençal: oura
    • Old French: ore
    • Occitan: aura
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Portuguese: oura, oira
  • Vulgar Latin: (see there for further descendants)
    • *aurāticum
    • *auridiāre

Unsorted borrowings:

  • → Albanian: aura
  • → Bulgarian: аура (aura)
  • → Catalan: aura
  • → Czech: aura
  • → Danish: aura
  • → Dutch: aura
  • → English: aura
    • → Japanese: オーラ (ōra)
  • → Esperanto: aŭro
  • → Finnish: aura
  • → French: aura
  • → Galician: aura
  • → German: Aura
  • → Hungarian: aura
  • → Icelandic: ára
  • → Indonesian: aura
  • → Italian: aura
  • → Korean: 아우라 (aura)
  • → Macedonian: аура (aura)
  • → Norwegian: aura
  • → Occitan: aura
  • → Polish: aura
  • → Portuguese: aura
  • → Romanian: aură
  • → Romansch: aura
  • → Russian: а́ура (áura)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: àura, а̀ура
  • → Slovene: aura
  • → Spanish: aura
  • → Sundanese: aura
  • → Swedish: aura
  • → Turkish: aura
  • → Ukrainian: а́ура (áura)

References

  • “aura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • aura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[3], London: Macmillan and Co.

Old Norse

Etymology

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

aura

  1. accusative plural of eyrir
  2. genitive plural of eyrir

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin aura.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈaw.ra/
  • Rhymes: -awra
  • Syllabification: au‧ra

Noun

aura f

  1. aura (distinctive atmosphere or quality associated with something)
    Synonyms: atmosfera, klimat, nastrój
  2. (meteorology) weather (distinctive atmosphere)
    Synonym: pogoda
  3. (medicine) aura (telltale sensation experienced by some people with epilepsy before a seizure)
  4. (parapsychology) aura (an invisible force surrounding a living creature)
    Synonym: pole biologiczne

Declension

Further reading

  • aura in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • aura in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin aura, from Ancient Greek αὔρα (aúra, “breeze, soft wind”). Doublet of oura, which was inherited.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -awɾɐ
  • Hyphenation: au‧ra

Noun

aura f (plural auras)

  1. aura (an invisible force surrounding a living creature)

Romansch

Alternative forms

  • ora (Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader)

Etymology

Inherited from Latin aura.

Noun

aura f

  1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) weather

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈauɾa/ [ˈau̯.ɾa]
  • Rhymes: -auɾa
  • Syllabification: au‧ra

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin aura, from Ancient Greek αὔρα (aúra, “breeze, soft wind”).

Noun

aura f (plural auras)

  1. aura

Etymology 2

Noun

aura f (plural auras)

  1. the turkey vulture and related species in the genus Cathartes, carrion-eating birds native to the Americas

Usage notes

  • Feminine nouns beginning with stressed /ˈa/ like this one regularly take the singular articles el and un, usually reserved for masculine nouns.
    el aura, un aura
  • They maintain the usual feminine singular articles la and una if an adjective intervenes between the article and the noun.

Further reading

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

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin aura (“a breeze, a breath of air, the air”), from Ancient Greek αὔρα (aúra, “breeze, soft wind”), from ἀήρ (aḗr, “air”). Doublet of aria.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈaʊ̯.ra/

Noun

aura c

  1. aura

Declension

References

  • aura in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • aura in Svensk ordbok (SO)

Weyewa

Noun

aura

  1. (Loli) vow, oath, pledge

References

  • Lobu Ori, S,Pd, M.Pd (2010) “aura”, in Kamus Bahasa Lolina [Dictionary of the Loli Language] (in Indonesian), Waikabubak: Kepala Dinas Kebudayaan dan Pariwisata, Kabupaten Sumba Barat

Source: wiktionary.org