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3 letters words from 'era'

ARE 3EAR 3
ERA 3 

2 letters words from 'era'

AE 2AR 2
EA 2ER 2
RE 2 

All 3 letters words made out of era

era rea ear aer rae are

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Definitions and meaning of era

era

Alternative forms

  • æra (archaic)

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin aera.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) enPR: îʹrə; IPA(key): /ˈɪə.ɹə/, [ˈɪə̯.ɹə]
    • Rhymes: -ɪəɹə
  • (US) enPR: ĕrʹə, îrʹə; IPA(key): /ˈɛɹ.ə/, /ˈɪɚ.ə/
    • Homophone: error (in non-rhotic accents)
    • Rhymes: -ɛɹə

Noun

era (plural eras)

  1. A time period of indeterminate length, generally more than one year.
  2. (geology) A unit of time, smaller than eons and greater than periods.

Synonyms

  • (time period of indeterminate length): age, epoch, period
  • See also Thesaurus:era

Coordinate terms

  • (geological time units) supereon, aeon/eon, era, period, epoch, age/sub-epoch

Hyponyms

  • (cosmological time unit): stelliferous era, degenerate era, black hole era
  • (geological time unit): Cenozoic era, erathem, Mesozoic era, Paleozoic era

Translations

Anagrams

  • 'ear, ARE, Aer, EAR, REA, Rae, Rea, aer-, are, aër-, ear, rea

Asturian

Etymology

From Late Latin aera.

Noun

era f (plural eres)

  1. era (time period)

Synonyms

  • época

Azerbaijani

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian э́ра (éra), ultimately from Late Latin aera.

Pronunciation

Noun

era (definite accusative eranı, plural eralar)

  1. era

Declension

Further reading

  • “era” in Obastan.com.

Basque

Noun

era inan

  1. manner

Catalan

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /ˈe.ɾə/
  • (Valencian) IPA(key): /ˈe.ɾa/
  • Rhymes: -eɾa

Etymology 1

From Late Latin aera.

Noun

era f (plural eres)

  1. era (time period)
    Synonym: època

Etymology 2

From Old Occitan, inherited from Latin ārea (“open space; threshing floor”). Compare the borrowed doublet àrea.

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

era

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

Further reading

  • “era” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “era” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
  • “era” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
  • “era” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Chuukese

Verb

era

  1. (intransitive) to say

Related terms

  • ereni

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin aera.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈeː.raː/
  • Hyphenation: era
  • Rhymes: -eːraː

Noun

era f (plural era's)

  1. era, age, epoch
    Synonyms: eeuw, tijdperk
  2. (dated) era, calendar
    Synonym: jaartelling

Esperanto

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈera]
  • Hyphenation: er‧a
  • Rhymes: -era

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

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.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɛ.ra/

Noun

era f (plural ere)

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

Verb

era

  1. third-person singular impfect indicative of essere

See also

  • epoca
  • età

Anagrams

  • -are, Rea, are, rea

Ladino

Verb

era (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling אירה‎)

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

Latin

Alternative forms

  • hera

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈe.ra/, [ˈɛrä]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈe.ra/, [ˈɛːrä]

Noun

era f (genitive erae, masculine erus); first declension

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

Declension

First-declension noun.

Luganda

Conjunction

era

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

See also

  • ne

References

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

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

era

  1. (archaic or dialectal) plural present of vera

Occitan

Pronunciation

Article

era f

  1. feminine singular of eth

Pronoun

era

  1. (Gascony) she

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *aiʀu, from Proto-Germanic *aizō.

Noun

ēra f

  1. honour
  2. dignity

Derived terms

  • unēra

Descendants

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

Further reading

  • “ēra”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old High German

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈeː.ra/

Noun

ēra f

  1. honour
  2. renown
  3. respect

Declension

Descendants

  • German: Ehre

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-West Germanic *aiʀu, from Proto-Germanic *aizō, whence also Old English ār, Old Norse eir.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɛː.rɑ/

Noun

ēra f

  1. honour
  2. renown
  3. glory

Declension


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

  • LEMOS BARBOSA, A. Curso de Tupi antigo. Rio de Janeiro: Livraria São José, 1956.

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɛ.ra/
  • Hyphenation: e‧ra
  • Rhymes: -ɛra

Noun

era f

  1. era

Declension

Related terms

  • n.e., p.n.e.

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: e‧ra
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  • Homophones: hera, Hera
  • Rhymes: -ɛɾɐ

Etymology 1

Inflected form of ser (“to be”).

Verb

era

  1. first-person singular (eu) imperfect indicative of ser
  2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) imperfect indicative of ser

Etymology 2

From Late Latin aera.

Noun

era f (plural eras)

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

Rapa Nui

Etymology

From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *e-la. Cognates include Tuamotuan era and Maori ērā.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈe.ɾa/
  • Hyphenation: e‧ra

Determiner

era

  1. that

See also

References

  • Veronica Du Feu (1996) Rapanui (Descriptive Grammars), Routledge, →ISBN, page 145
  • Paulus Kieviet (2017) A grammar of Rapa Nui‎[3], Berlin: Language Science Press, →ISBN, page 194

Romanian

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [jeˈra]

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

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈera]

Noun

era f

  1. definite nominative/accusative singular of eră

Rwanda-Rundi

Verb

-êra (infinitive kwêra, perfective -êze)

  1. be white
  2. be pure, be innocent
  3. be holy
  4. be ripe

Derived terms

  • icyumweru / icumweru (“week”)
  • umwera (“white person”)
  • umweru (“something white”)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin aera.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

éra f (Cyrillic spelling е́ра)

  1. era

Declension

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

  • estaba

Etymology 2

From Late Latin aera.

Noun

era f (plural eras)

  1. era, age
  2. (geology) era

Etymology 3

Inherited from Latin ārea. Compare the borrowed doublet área.

Noun

era f (plural eras)

  1. threshing floor
  2. tipple

Further reading

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

Swedish

Alternative forms

  • edra (archaic)

Pronunciation

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

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:)

Declension

Etymology 2

From Latin aera.

Noun

era c

  1. era

Declension

Anagrams

  • -are, rea

Tause

Noun

era

  1. water

See also

  • ira (Weirate and Deirate dialects)

References

  • Duane A. Clouse, 1997, Toward a reconstruction and reclassification of the Lakes Plain languages of Irian Jaya, In Karl J. Franklin (ed.), Papers in Papuan linguistics No. 2, 133-236. Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, page 172

Source: wiktionary.org
  • a main division of geological time.
    (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)