aurora

From Latin aurōra (“dawn”).

• IPA^(key): /əˈɹɔː.ɹə/, /ɔːˈɹɔː.ɹə/
• Rhymes: -ɔːɹə
• Hyphenation: au‧ro‧ra

aurora (plural auroras or aurorae)

1. An atmospheric phenomenon created by charged particles from the sun striking the upper atmosphere, creating coloured lights in the sky. It is usually named australis or borealis based on whether it is in the Southern or Northern Hemisphere respectively.

• chasma (obsolete, rare)
• polar light

• (Northern Hemisphere): aurora borealis, northern lights
• (Southern Hemisphere): aurora australis, southern lights

• aroura

From Latin aurōra, from an ā-stem extension of Proto-Italic *auzōs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwsōs.

• IPA^(key): /au̯ˈrɔ.ra/, [äu̯ˈr̺ɔːr̺ä]
• Stress: auròra
• Hyphenation: au‧ro‧ra

aurora f (plural aurore)

1. dawn, sunrise

   Antonym: tramonto

2. aurora

• aurora boreale
• aurorale

• (times of day) parte del giorno; aurora,‎ alba,‎ mattino/‎mattina,‎ mezzogiorno,‎ pomeriggio,‎ tramonto,‎ crepuscolo,‎ sera,‎ notte,‎ mezzanotte ^{(Category: it:Time) [edit]}

From Proto-Italic *auzōs (as Flōra from flōs), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwsōs (“dawn”). In the Proto-Indo-European religion it was personified as the goddess of the dawn, corresponding to the Roman goddess Aurōra, from *h₂ews- (“east”).

Cognates include the Latin auster, Ancient Greek Ἠώς (Ēṓs), ἠώς (ēṓs), the Sanskrit उषस् (uṣás, “dawn”, “Ushas”), and the Old English Ēostre (modern Easter), English east.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /au̯ˈroː.ra/

aurōra f (genitive aurōrae); first declension

1. dawn, sunrise

First declension.

• aurōreus

• Aurōra

• aurora in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• aurora in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• aurora in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• aurora in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• aurora in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• aurora in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

From Latin aurōra (“dawn, sunrise”), from the Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwsōs (“dawn”).

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /aw.ˈɾɔ.ɾɐ/
• Hyphenation: au‧ro‧ra

aurora f (plural auroras)

1. dawn; daybreak
2. Clipping of aurora boreal.

aurora f

1. definite singular nominative and accusative form of auroră.

aurora f (plural auroras)

1. aurora