auro
- gold
Learned borrowing fromLatinaurum, from earlierausum, fromProto-Italic*auzom, fromProto-Indo-European*h₂éh₂usom(“glow”), derived from the root*h₂ews-.Doublet oforo.
auro m (pluralauri)
- (literary, archaic)Synonym oforo
- auro in Treccani.it –Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Fromaurum(“gold”) +-ō.
aurō (present infinitiveaurāre,perfect activeaurāvī,supineaurātum);first conjugation
- (transitive) tooverlay withgold,gild
aurō
- dative/ablativesingular ofaurum
- “auro”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- auro inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894)Latin Phrase-Book[1], London:Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to turn a deaf ear to, to open one's ears to..:aures claudere, patefacere (e.g.veritati, assentatoribus)
- (ambiguous) to listen to a person:aures praebere alicui
- (ambiguous) to din a thing into a person's ears:aures alicuius obtundere or simplyobtundere (aliquem)
- (ambiguous) to whisper something in a person's ears:in aurem alicui dicere (insusurrare) aliquid
- (ambiguous) to come to some one's ears:ad aures alicuius (notalicui)pervenire, accidere
- (ambiguous) to prick up one's ears:aures erigere
- (ambiguous) his words find an easy hearing, are listened to with pleasure:oratio in aures influit
- (ambiguous) a fine, practised ear:aures elegantes, teretes, tritae (De Or. 9. 27)
- (ambiguous) to turn one's eyes (ears, attention) towards an object:oculos (aures, animum)advertere ad aliquid
