aura

Borrowed from Latin aura (“a breeze, a breath of air, the air”), from Ancient Greek αὔρα (aúra, “breeze, soft wind”), from ἀήρ (aḗr, “air”). Doublet of east, auster, air, and aria. The slang sense originated in the early 2020s and was popularized on TikTok around May 2024.^[1]

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɔː.ɹə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɔɹ.ə/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɔːɹə

aura (countable and uncountable, plural aurae or auræ or auras)

1. A distinctive atmosphere or quality associated with something.

   Synonyms: air, feeling, mood, spirit, vibe

   This place has an aura of 19th century Paris.

2. (parapsychology) An invisible force surrounding a living creature.
3. (medicine) A perceptual disturbance experienced by some migraine sufferers before a migraine headache.
4. (medicine) A telltale sensation experienced by some people with epilepsy before a seizure.
6. (uncountable, Internet slang) A charismatic and dominant presence (of a person).

   He has insane aura.

   • 2023 December 20, @sugarsmorecake, Twitter‎^[1], archived from the original on 6 June 2024:

     Tht Nigga [Adolf Hitler] has no aura He dress like a medieval Queer

   • 2024 February 26, @lfcemii, Twitter‎^[2], archived from the original on 6 June 2024:

     how can he still have aura even without showing his face

   • 2024 June 2, @opaltaerae, Twitter‎^[3], archived from the original on 6 June 2024:

     this genuinely shocked me omfg his aura is insane 😭

   • 2024 June 3, u/Ship_per, “What's your faves biggest aura loss?”, in Reddit‎^[4], r/kpop_uncensored, archived from the original on 6 June 2024:

     My fav aura losses are rm exposing Taehyun Infront^[sic] of jongkook, Yeonjun hugging the air while coi leray was hugging Beomgyu, huening doing that one dance in front of the ladies and everyone at the GDA(correct me if I'm wrong)lol

   • 2024 August 2, Annie Aguiar, “Who’s Winning Internet Gold at the Olympics?”, in The New York Times‎^[5], →ISSN:

     A clip of Kim stoically shooting at a competition in May spread exponentially online after her Olympic appearance, with posts citing her “aura,” current slang for an aspirational level of cool.

• “aura”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “aura”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “aura”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• Aaru, Arau

Borrowed from Latin aura, from Ancient Greek αὔρα (aúra, “breeze, soft wind”). Doublet of the inherited ora.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈaw.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈaw.ɾa]

aura f (plural aures)

1. gentle breeze

   Synonym: ora

2. popularity
3. aura

• “aura” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

aura f (plural aure)

1. Alternative form of jaura

Borrowed from Latin aura, from Ancient Greek αὔρα (aúra).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑu̯.raː/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: au‧ra

aura f (plural aura's, diminutive auraatje n)

1. aura

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑu̯rɑ/, [ˈɑ̝u̯rɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑurɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): au‧ra

From Proto-Finnic *atra (compare Estonian ader), borrowed from Proto-Germanic *arþrą (compare Old Norse arðr), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂érh₃trom.

aura

1. plough, plow (agricultural tool)

   Synonym: kyntöaura

   Isäntä kynti peltoa uudella viisisiipisellä auralla.

   The householder ploughed the field with a new five-blade plough.

2. plough, plow (device used to clear snow)

   Synonym: lumiaura

3. wedge (group of birds flying in a V-shaped formation)
4. (skiing, ski jumping) wedge (pointing the skis inwards to slow down)

• “1. aura”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[6] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

Borrowed from Latin aura.

aura

1. aura

• “2. aura”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[7] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

• raau, uraa

• IPA^(key): /o.ʁa/, /ɔ.ʁa/

Borrowed from Latin aura.

aura f (plural auras)

1. aura

aura

1. third-person singular future of avoir

• “aura”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from Latin aura (“breeze, smell”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈɒurɒ]
• Hyphenation: au‧ra
• Rhymes: -rɒ

aura (plural aurák)

1. aura

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	aura	aurák
accusative	aurát	aurákat
dative	aurának	auráknak
instrumental	aurával	aurákkal
causal-final	auráért	aurákért
translative	aurává	aurákká
terminative	auráig	aurákig
essive-formal	auraként	aurákként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	aurában	aurákban
superessive	aurán	aurákon
adessive	auránál	auráknál
illative	aurába	aurákba
sublative	aurára	aurákra
allative	aurához	aurákhoz
elative	aurából	aurákból
delative	auráról	aurákról
ablative	aurától	auráktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	auráé	auráké
non-attributive possessive - plural	auráéi	aurákéi

Possessive forms of aura
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	aurám	auráim
2nd person sing.	aurád	auráid
3rd person sing.	aurája	aurái
1st person plural	auránk	auráink
2nd person plural	aurátok	auráitok
3rd person plural	aurájuk	auráik

• aura in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

From English aura, from Latin aura (“a breeze, a breath of air, the air”), from Ancient Greek αὔρα (aúra, “breeze, soft wind”), from ἀήρ (aḗr, “air”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈau̯ra]
• Hyphenation: au‧ra

aura (plural a-, first-person possessive auraku, second-person possessive auramu, third-person possessive auranya)

1. aura,
   1. an invisible force surrounding a living creature.
   2. (medicine) perceptual disturbance experienced by some migraine sufferers before a migraine headache.
   3. (medicine) telltale sensation experienced by some people with epilepsy before a seizure.

• “aura” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Borrowed from Latin aura, from Ancient Greek αὔρα (aúra, “breeze, soft wind”). Doublet of the inherited ora.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaw.ra/
• Rhymes: -awra
• Hyphenation: àu‧ra

aura f (plural aure)

1. aura
2. light breeze

From Ancient Greek αὔρα (aúra).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈau̯.ra/, [ˈäu̯rä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈau̯.ra/, [ˈäːu̯rä]

aura f (genitive aurae); first declension

1. air
2. breeze
   • 13 CE, Ovid, Epistulae ex Ponto 2.3.25–28:

     Ēn ego, nōn paucīs quondam mūnītus amīcīs,
          dum flāvit vēlīs aura secunda meīs,
     ut fera nimbōsō tumuērunt aequora ventō,
          in mediīs lacerā nāve relinquor aquīs.

     Behold me! once supported by many friends—while a favouring breeze filled my sails now that the wild seas have been swelled by the stormy wind, I am abandoned on a shattered bark in the midst of the waters.

First-declension noun.

• āēr
• ventus
• spīritus

• Balkan Romance:
  • Megleno-Romanian: aură
  • Aromanian: avrã
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: ora (ety. 3)
• North Italian:
  • Piedmontese: òra
  • Romansch: aura, ora (Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader)
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: ora
  • Franco-Provençal: oura
  • Old French: ore
  • Occitan: aura
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Portuguese: oura, oira
• Vulgar Latin: (see there for further descendants)
  • *aurāticum
  • *aurizāre

Unsorted borrowings:

• → Albanian: aura
• → Bulgarian: аура (aura)
• → Catalan: aura
• → Czech: aura
• → Danish: aura
• → Dutch: aura
• → English: aura
  • → Japanese: オーラ (ōra)
• → Esperanto: aŭro
• → Finnish: aura
• → French: aura
• → Galician: aura
• → German: Aura
• → Hungarian: aura
• → Icelandic: ára
• → Indonesian: aura
• → Italian: aura
• → Korean: 아우라 (aura)
• → Macedonian: аура (aura)
• → Norwegian: aura
• → Occitan: aura
• → Polish: aura
• → Portuguese: aura
• → Romanian: aură
• → Romansch: aura
• → Russian: а́ура (áura)
• → Serbo-Croatian: àura, а̀ура
• → Slovene: aura
• → Spanish: aura
• → Sundanese: aura
• → Swedish: aura
• → Turkish: aura
• → Ukrainian: а́ура (áura)

• “aura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• aura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[8], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • popular favour; popularity: aura favoris popularis (Liv. 22. 26)
    
  • popular favour; popularity: aura popularis (Harusp. 18. 43)
    
  • to court popularity: auram popularem captare (Liv. 3. 33)
    
  • a popular man: aurae popularis homo (Liv. 42. 30)
    
  • to use some one's unpopularity as a means of making oneself popular: ex invidia alicuius auram popularem petere (Liv. 22. 26)
    

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

aura

1. accusative plural of eyrir
2. genitive plural of eyrir

Learned borrowing from Latin aura.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaw.ra/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -awra
• Syllabification: au‧ra

aura f

1. aura (distinctive atmosphere or quality associated with something)

   Synonyms: atmosfera, klimat, nastrój

2. (meteorology) weather (distinctive atmosphere)

   Synonym: pogoda

3. (medicine) aura (telltale sensation experienced by some people with epilepsy before a seizure)
4. (parapsychology) aura, biofield (invisible force surrounding a living creature; supposed field of energy or life force that surrounds or permeates a living thing)

   Synonyms: biopole, pole biologiczne

• aura in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• aura in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Learned borrowing from Latin aura, from Ancient Greek αὔρα (aúra, “breeze, soft wind”). Doublet of oura, which was inherited.

• Rhymes: -awɾɐ
• Hyphenation: au‧ra

aura f (plural auras)

1. aura (an invisible force surrounding a living creature)

• ora (Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader)

Inherited from Latin aura.

aura f

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) weather

• IPA^(key): /ˈauɾa/ [ˈau̯.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -auɾa
• Syllabification: au‧ra

Borrowed from Latin aura, from Ancient Greek αὔρα (aúra, “breeze, soft wind”).

aura f (plural auras)

1. aura

aura f (plural auras)

1. the turkey vulture and related species in the genus Cathartes, carrion-eating birds native to the Americas

• Feminine nouns beginning with stressed /ˈa/ like aura take the singular definite article el (otherwise reserved for masculine nouns) instead of the usual la: el aura. This includes the contracted forms al and del (instead of a la and de la, respectively): al aura, del aura.

These nouns also usually take the indefinite article un that is otherwise used with masculine nouns (although the standard feminine form una is also permitted): un aura or una aura. The same is true with determiners algún/alguna and ningún/ninguna, as well as for numerals ending with 1 (e.g., veintiún/veintiuna).

However, if another word intervenes between the article and the noun, the usual feminine singular articles and determiners (la, una etc.) must be used: la mejor aura, una buena aura.

• If an adjective follows the noun, it must agree with the noun's gender regardless of the article used: el aura única, un(a) aura buena.
• In the plural, the usual feminine singular articles and determiners (las, unas etc.) are always used.

• “aura”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

Borrowed from Latin aura (“a breeze, a breath of air, the air”), from Ancient Greek αὔρα (aúra, “breeze, soft wind”), from ἀήρ (aḗr, “air”). Doublet of aria.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaʊ̯.ra/

aura c

1. aura

• aura in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• aura in Svensk ordbok (SO)

aura

1. (Loli) vow, oath, pledge

• Lobu Ori, S,Pd, M.Pd (2010) “aura”, in Kamus Bahasa Lolina [Dictionary of the Loli Language] (in Indonesian), Waikabubak: Kepala Dinas Kebudayaan dan Pariwisata, Kabupaten Sumba Barat