area

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English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ārea.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛəɹi.ə/
• (US) enPR: ĕʼrē-ə; IPA^(key): /ˈɛɹi.ə/
• Rhymes: -ɛəɹi.ə
• Hyphenation: a‧re‧a, ar‧e‧a

Noun

area (plural areas or areæ)

1. (mathematics) A measure of the extent of a surface; it is measured in square units.
2. A particular geographic region.
3. Any particular extent of surface, especially an empty or unused extent.

4. The extent, scope, or range of an object or concept.
5. (British) An open space, below ground level, giving access to the basement of a house, and typically separated from the pavement by railings. [from 18th c.]
6. (soccer) Penalty box; penalty area.
7. (slang) Genitals.

Derived terms

Related terms

• areal

Translations

See also

• Imperial: square inches, square feet, square yards, square miles, acres
• Metric: square meters/square metres, square centimeters/square centimetres, square kilometers/square kilometres, hectares

Anagrams

• Aare, æra

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

Noun

area (plural areas)

1. area

Derived terms

• leerarea

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese arẽa, from Latin arēnā (“sand”). Cognate with Portuguese areia and Spanish arena.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈɾea̝/

Noun

area f (plural areas)

1. sand (a grain)
2. (figuratively) a grain of salt
3. sand (collectively)

   Synonyms: xabre, saibro

4. (dated) beach, cove

   Synonyms: areal, praia, arnela

Derived terms

See also

• área

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “area”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “area”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “area”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “area”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “area”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Indonesian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ārea.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈarɛa]
• Hyphenation: arèa

Noun

arèa (plural area-area)

1. area:
   1. a particular geographic region

      Synonym: daerah

   2. any particular extent of surface, especially an empty or unused extent

      Synonym: kawasan

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

• “area” 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.

Italian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ārea. Doublet of aia (“threshing floor”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.re.a/
• Rhymes: -area
• Hyphenation: à‧re‧a

Noun

area f (plural aree)

1. area, surface
2. land, ground
3. field, sector

Related terms

• areale

Anagrams

• aera

Latin

Etymology

Of disputed etymology:

• Either from Proto-Italic *āzeā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eHs-e-yeh₂, from *h₂eHs- (“to burn”) (whence āreō, ārā),
• Or from Proto-Italic *āreā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eh₂r-e-yeh₂, from *h₂eh₂rh₃- (“threshing tool”) (cognate with Hittite [script needed] (ḫaḫḫar, “rake, threshing tool”)), resultative reduplicated noun from verb *h₂erh₃- (“to plough”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈaː.re.a/, [ˈäːreä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.re.a/, [ˈäːreä]

Noun

ārea f (genitive āreae); first declension

1. a piece of level ground, a vacant place (esp. in the town)
2. ground for a house, a building-spot
3. (figuratively) a vacant space around or in a house, a court
4. (figuratively) an open space for games, an open play-ground
5. (figuratively) a threshing floor
6. (figuratively) the halo around the sun or moon
7. (figuratively) a bed or border in a garden
8. (figuratively) a fowling-floor
9. (figuratively) a burying-ground, church-yard
10. (figuratively) a bald spot upon the head, baldness

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

• ārealis
• āreola

Descendants

Borrowings:

Further reading

• “area”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “area”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "area", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• area in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “area”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “area”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Anagrams

• aera

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Spanish área

Noun

area

1. area

Portuguese

Noun

area f (plural areas)

1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of área.

Swedish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ārea (literally “vacant piece of level ground”).

Noun

area c

1. (geometry) area; a measure of squared distance

Declension