aire

aire (countable and uncountable, plural aires)

1. Obsolete spelling of air

• Arie, arie

From Latin aēr, aeris.

aire m (plural aires)

1. air

aire

1. air (mixture of gases)

From Latin āēr.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈaj.ɾə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈaj.ɾe/

aire m (plural aires)

1. air (mixture of gases)

• IPA^(key): /ɛʁ/

• une aire

  (file)

• Homophones: air, airent, aires, airs, ère, ères, erre, errent, erres, ers, haire, haires, hère, hères

From Latin ārea. Doublet of are.

aire f (plural aires)

1. (geometry) (surface) area
2. (architecture) a flat surface
3. (sailing) direction of the wind
4. threshing floor
5. area, zone, range (a space in which a certain thing occurs)

• (surface area): superficie

• are

Probably from Latin ager, agrum (and hence a doublet of ager, a later borrowing), or related to the above. Compare Old Occitan agre (“bird's nest”).

aire f (plural aires)

1. eyrie, aerie

aire

1. inflection of airer:
   1. first-person and third-person singular present indicative
   2. first-person and third-person singular present subjunctive
   3. second-person singular present imperative

• raie

• “aire” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• ar

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese aire (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin aēr, aeris.

• IPA^(key): /ˈajɾe̝/

aire m (plural aires)

1. air
   • c1295, R. Lorenzo (ed.), La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla. Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 108:

     Et algũu mouro astroso, que sabe fazer estas cousas, fezo aquela uisom vijr pelo aere por nos espantar cõ esta arteria.

     And some despicable Moor, who knows how to do this things, made this vision that came by the air, to scare us with this trick

2. evil eye

• “aire” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “aire” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “aire” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “aire” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɾʲə/
• (Aran) IPA^(key): /ˈæɾʲə/, /ˈaɾʲə/, /ˈɑːɾʲə/

From Old Irish aire f (“act of guarding, watching over, tending, caring for; notice, heed, attention”).

aire f (genitive singular aire)

1. care, attention
2. heed, notice

From Old Irish aire, from Proto-Celtic *aryos, of disputed origin (see Old Irish entry for more).

aire m (genitive singular aireach, nominative plural aireacha)

1. (literary) nobleman, chief, freeman

• bó-aire

aire m (genitive singular aire, nominative plural airí)

1. (government) minister

• aireacht f (“ministry”)
• binse na nAirí (“the front bench”)

• “1 aire (‘act of guarding, watching over’)” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• “3 aire (‘nobleman, chief’)” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• “aire” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 2nd ed., 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
• Finck, F. N. (1899), Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. II, p. 26.
• "aire" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

From a +‎ ire.

• IPA^(key): /aˈi.re/, [äˈiːr̺e]
• Stress: aìre
• Hyphenation: a‧i‧re

aire m (uncountable) (literary)

1. impulse, start (of a motion)

   dare l'aire a qualcosa ― to put something into motion (literally, “to give the start to something”)

   prendere l'aire ― to start moving (literally, “to take the start”)

   Synonyms: abbrivo (literary), avvio, rincorsa, slancio, spinta

Variant of aere.

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.i.re/, [ˈäːir̺e]
• Stress: àire
• Hyphenation: a‧i‧re

aire m (plural airi)

1. Archaic form of aere.

From Latin āēr.

aire m (Latin spelling)

1. air, wind

• àira (Guardiol)

From Latin āēr.

aire m (plural aires)

1. air (mixture of gases)

aire m (oblique plural aires, nominative singular aires, nominative plural aire)

1. appearance; semblance

• debonaire
• deputaire

Originally a io-stem (as shown by the dative plural form airib and the personal name Lóegaire (literally “favorite nobleman”) with vocative and genitive Lóegairi), later reanalyzed as a k-stem due to conflation with the synonymous airech. From Proto-Celtic *aryos (compare Gaulish personal names with Ario-, such as Ario-manus and Ario-vistus), of unknown origin.

• Historically (since the now-defunct derivation of Adolphe Pictet, 1858) speculated to mean "freeman", and furthermore supposed to be related to Indo-Iranian *áryas. This idea was especially popular in the 19th- and early 20th-century context of "Aryan" race and language theory, which posited Aryans as "noble" "freemen" opposed to slave-like दास (dāsa)/Semites. Today, for linguistic reasons, any attempt to find a European cognate for the Indo-Iranian autonym is treated with extreme skepsis. See *áryas for details.
• According to Meid, it is from Proto-Indo-European *pr̥h₃- (“first”) (Sanskrit पूर्व (pūrvá), Ancient Greek πρῶτος (prôtos), Lithuanian pirmas). According to Matasović this is less convincing because there are no traces of the laryngeal in the purported Celtic reflexes (*pr̥h₃yos would have given *ɸrāyos).

• IPA^(key): /ˈarʲe/

aire m (genitive airech, nominative plural airig)

1. freeman (whether commoner or noble)
2. noble (as distinct from commoner)

• Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 43
• W. Meid (2005), Keltische Personennamen in Pannonien, Archaeolingua, Budapest.
• Mallory, J. P.; Adams, D. Q., editors (1997) Encyclopedia of Indo-European culture, London, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, page 213
• “3 aire (‘nobleman, chief’)” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

• Hyphenation: ai‧re

aire

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of airar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of airar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of airar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of airar

From Old Irish aire f (“act of guarding, watching over, tending, caring for; notice, heed, attention”).

aire f (genitive singular aire)

1. mind

   Tha rudeigin air a h-aire. ― There's something on her mind.

2. attention, heed, notice
3. care, regard

   Thoiribh an aire oiribh! ― Take care of yourselves!

• (attention, regard): suim

• cuir an aire
• fa-near

• IPA^(key): /ˈaiɾe/, [ˈai̯ɾe]
• Hyphenation: ai‧re

From Latin āēr, from Ancient Greek ἀήρ (aḗr).

aire m (plural aires)

1. air (the substance constituting earth's atmosphere)
2. air (the open space above the ground)
3. air; wind

   Synonym: viento

4. air (a feeling or sense)
5. resemblance (to another person)
6. (usually in the plural) air (pretension; snobbishness)

   darse aires ― to put on airs

7. air (a sense of poise, graciousness, or quality)

• → Basque: aire

• aéreo

aire m (plural aires)

1. solenodon

   Synonym: almiquí

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