An aurora seen aboveBear Lake ,Alaska , USA FromLatin aurōra ( “ dawn ” ) .Doublet ofEos .
aurora (plural auroras or aurorae )
Anatmospheric phenomenon created bycharged particles from thesun striking the upperatmosphere , creating colouredlights in thesky . It is usually namedaustralis orborealis based on whether it is in theSouthern orNorthern Hemisphere respectively.Synonyms: chasma ( obsolete, rare ) ,polar light atmospheric phenomenon
Albanian:aurorë (sq) Arabic:شَفَق قُطْبِيّ m ( šafaq quṭbiyy ) Bashkir:һаҙағай ( haźağay ) Bulgarian:се́верно сия́ние n ( séverno sijánie ) Catalan:aurora (ca) f polar Chinese:Mandarin:極光 / 极光 (zh) ( jíguāng ) Czech:polární záře (cs) f Danish:polarlys n Dutch:poollicht (nl) n Esperanto:aŭroro Estonian:virmalised pl Faroese:pólalýsi n Finnish:revontulet (fi) pl French:aurore polaire (fr) f Galician:aurora (gl) f German:Polarlicht (de) n Greek:σέλας (el) n ( sélas ) Hebrew:זֹהַר הַקֹּטֶב (he) m ( zóhar haqótev ) Hungarian:sarki fény (hu) Icelandic:segulljós (is) n pl Ido:auroro (io) Ingrian:revontulet Irish:gealán m Japanese:極光 (ja) ( きょくこう, kyokukō ) ,オーロラ (ja) ( ōrora ) Korean:극광(極光) (ko) ( geukgwang ) ,오로라 (ko) ( orora ) Latgalian:pūstumdzīsna ,polardzīsna ,sarkanis pl Latin:aurōra (la) f Latvian:ziemeļblāzma ,polārblāzma ,kāvi Macedonian:авро́ра f ( avróra ) Maori:tahunuiarangi ,tahu-nui-a-rangi ,ngā kurakura o Hinenuitepō Northern Mansi:(pleaseverify ) сисьной ( sisʹnoj ) Norwegian:polarlys n Persian:ارورا ( ororâ ) ,شفق قطبی (fa) ( šafaq-e qotbi ) ,اوشه ( uše ) Polish:zorza polarna (pl) f ,aurora (pl) f ,zorza poranna f Portuguese:aurora (pt) f Romanian:auroră polară (ro) f Russian:поля́рное сия́ние (ru) n ( poljárnoje sijánije ) ,се́верное сия́ние (ru) n ( sévernoje sijánije ) ( northern lights ) Spanish:aurora (es) f Swedish:polarsken (sv) n Thai:ออโรรา (th) ( ɔɔ-roo-râa ) Turkish:kutup ışığı Ukrainian:поля́рне ся́йво n ( poljárne sjájvo ) Uyghur:قۇتۇپ نۇرى ( qutup nuri ) Vietnamese:cực quang
FromLatin aurōra .
aurora
Synonym ofauroraperhonen ( “ orange tip butterfly ” ) FromLatin aurōra , from anā -stem extension ofProto-Italic *auzōs , fromProto-Indo-European *h₂éwsōs .
IPA (key ) : /awˈrɔ.ra/ Rhymes:-ɔra Hyphenation:au‧rò‧ra aurora f (plural aurore )
aurora dawn ,sunrise Synonym: alba Antonym: tramonto FromProto-Italic *auzōs (asFlōra fromflōs ), fromProto-Indo-European *h₂éwsōs ( “ dawn ” ) . In theProto-Indo-European religion it was personified as the goddess of the dawn, corresponding to the Roman goddessAurōra , from*h₂ews- ( “ east ” ) .Cognates include theLatin auster ,Ancient Greek ἠώς ( ēṓs ) ,Sanskrit उषस् ( uṣás ,“ dawn”, “Ushas ” ) , and theEnglish east .
aurōra f (genitive aurōrae ) ;first declension
dawn ,sunrise Synonym: lūx First-declension noun.
“aurora ”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879 )A Latin Dictionary , Oxford: Clarendon Press “aurora ”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891 )An Elementary Latin Dictionary , New York: Harper & Brothers "aurora ", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) aurora inGaffiot, Félix (1934 )Dictionnaire illustré latin-français , Hachette. “aurora ”, inHarry Thurston Peck, editor (1898 ),Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities , New York: Harper & Brothers “aurora ”, inWilliam Smith, editor (1848 ),A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology , London: John Murray aurora Learned borrowing fromLatin aurōra .Doublet ofEos .
aurora f
( poetic ) red sky at morning ( term for the brightening sky just before sunrise, when the sky takes on a yellow-orange color on the horizon ) Synonyms: jutrzenka ,jutrznia ,zorza poranna aurora in Polish dictionaries at PWNaurora Learned borrowing fromLatin aurōra ( “ dawn, sunrise ” ) , from theProto-Indo-European *h₂éwsōs ( “ dawn ” ) .
aurora f (plural auroras )
dawn ;daybreak Clipping ofaurora boreal .( poetic ) Orient aurora f
definite nominative / accusative singular ofauroră Borrowed fromLatin aurōra .
IPA (key ) : /auˈɾoɾa/ [au̯ˈɾo.ɾa] Rhymes:-oɾa Syllabification:au‧ro‧ra aurora f (plural auroras )
aurora dawn Synonyms: alba ,amanecer ,madrugada