aura Latin · revision 17922

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=204–169 BC, Ennius|origins=grc αὔρα}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈau̯.ra]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈaːu̯.ra]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''aura''' ''f'' (genitive aurae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

+ Virgil has the old genitive ''aurāī''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)

+ Servius reads a genitive ''aurās'' in Virgil.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|αὔρα|tr=aúra|t=breeze, breath of air]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) The TLL says it is first found in Ennius.^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Ennius has ''per tenerās cālīginis aurās'', “through the soft vapours of the mist”.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ ''Aura'' is air in gentle motion, a breath of air, a breeze (especially for sailing), and in the plural often the air above the earth, the sky.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) Figuratively ''aura populāris'' is the breath of popular favour.^(OLD 2012) It also means breath from the lungs, an odour or smell, and a vapour or exhalation.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “breath, air, breeze”.^(Stelten 1995) English [[m|en|aura]] meant an aroma or subtle emanation in the 18th century, a characteristic impression in 1859, and in spiritualism (1870) an emanation around living beings.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 204–169 BC – Ennius: ''per tenerās cālīginis aurās''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato: ''nocte aurā profectī sumus'', “we set out by night with a breeze”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil: ''omnēs terrent aurae'', “every breath of air frightens me”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace: ''arbitriō populāris aurae'', “at the whim of popular favour”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1870 – English [[m|en|aura]] in spiritualism.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A breath of air, [[m|en|breeze]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # A wind (for sailing).^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''aura populāris'', popular favour.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(often plural)'' The [[m|en|air]], the sky.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # Breath.^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # An odour; a vapour.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[aurula]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[āēr]]

+ * [[ventus]]

+ * [[anima]]

+ * [[en|aura]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}