era

era

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English

Alternative forms

  • æra (archaic)

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin aera.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) enPR: îʹrə; IPA(key): /ˈɪə.ɹə/, [ˈɪə̯.ɹə]
    • Rhymes: -ɪəɹə
  • (US) enPR: ĕrʹə, îrʹə; IPA(key): /ˈɛɹ.ə/, /ˈɪɚ.ə/
    • Homophone: error (non-rhotic)
    • Rhymes: -ɛɹə

Noun

era (plural eras)

  1. A time period of indeterminate length, generally more than one year.
  2. (geology) A geochronologic unit of tens to hundreds of millions of years; a subdivision of an eon, and subdivided into periods.
  3. (Internet slang) A person's current interests

Synonyms

  • (time period of indeterminate length): age, epoch, period
  • See also Thesaurus:era

Hyponyms

  • (cosmological time unit): stelliferous era, degenerate era, black hole era
  • (geochronologic unit): Cenozoic era, erathem, Mesozoic era, Paleozoic era

Coordinate terms

  • (geological time units) supereon, aeon/eon, era, period, epoch, age/sub-epoch

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

  • era on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • 'ear, Åre, ear, Rea, rea, EAR, REA, aer-, A.R.E., ReA, ARE, aër-, Are, Aer, are, Rae

Asturian

Etymology

From Late Latin aera.

Noun

era f (plural eres)

  1. era (time period)

Synonyms

  • época

Azerbaijani

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian э́ра (éra), ultimately from Late Latin aera.

Pronunciation

Noun

era (definite accusative eranı, plural eralar)

  1. era
    yeni eraya qədəm qoymaq ― to enter a new era
    eramızdan əvvəl ― before the commonera

Declension

Further reading

  • “era” in Obastan.com.

Basque

Pronunciation

Noun

era inan

  1. manner

Catalan

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈe.ɾə]
  • IPA(key): (Valencia) [ˈe.ɾa]
  • Rhymes: -eɾa

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Late Latin aera.

Noun

era f (plural eres)

  1. era (time period)
    Synonym: època

Etymology 2

Inherited from Latin ārea (“open space; threshing floor”). Compare the borrowed doublet àrea.

Noun

era f (plural eres)

  1. small section of arable land destined for cultivation

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

era

  1. first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of ser
  2. first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of ésser

Further reading

  • “era” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “era”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
  • “era” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
  • “era” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Chuukese

Verb

era

  1. (intransitive) to say

Related terms

  • ereni

Creek

Pronunciation

  • (Oklahoma) IPA(key): [ɪɬɑ́ˑ]
  • Hyphenation: e‧ra

Noun

era

  1. his/her back

Inflection

References

  • J. B. Martin, M. McKane Mauldrin (2004) A dictionary of Creek/Muscogee, University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 31
  • J. B. Martin (2011) A grammar of Creek (Muscogee), University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 134

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin aera.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈeː.raː/
  • Hyphenation: era
  • Rhymes: -eːraː

Noun

era f (plural era's)

  1. era, age, epoch
    Synonyms: eeuw, tijdperk
  2. (dated) era, calendar
    Synonym: jaartelling

Esperanto

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈera]
  • Rhymes: -era
  • Hyphenation: er‧a

Adjective

era (accusative singular eran, plural eraj, accusative plural erajn)

  1. adjective form of ero (“bit, piece”).

Fala

Verb

era

  1. first-person singular imperfect indicative of sel (“to be”)
  2. third-person singular imperfect indicative of sel (“to be”)

Galician

Verb

era

  1. first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of ser

Interlingua

Noun

era (plural eras)

  1. era

Verb

era

  1. optional irregular past tense form of esser ("to be")

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɛ.ra/
  • Rhymes: -ɛra
  • Hyphenation: è‧ra

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Late Latin aera.

Noun

era f (plural ere)

  1. age, epoch, period
    Synonyms: epoca, età
  2. (geology) era

Etymology 2

Inherited from Latin erat.

Verb

era

  1. third-person singular imperfect indicative of essere

Etymology 3

From Latin eram.

Verb

era

  1. (obsolete) Alternative form of ero, first-person singular imperfect indicative of essere

Anagrams

  • -are, Rea, are, rea

Ladino

Verb

era (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling אירה)

  1. first-person singular imperfect indicative of ser
  2. third-person singular imperfect indicative of ser

Latin

Alternative forms

  • hera

Pronunciation

  • (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈe.ra/, [ˈɛrä]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈe.ra/, [ˈɛːrä]

Noun

era f (genitive erae, masculine erus); first declension

  1. mistress (of a house, with respect to the servants)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Luganda

Conjunction

era

  1. and then (only used for occurrences in chronological order)

See also

  • ne

References

The Essentials of Luganda, J. D. Chesswas, 4th edition. Oxford University Press: Nairobi. 1967, p. 95.

Mirandese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɛ.ɾɐ/

Verb

era

  1. first/third-person singular imperfect of ser

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

era

  1. (archaic or dialectal) plural present of vera

Occitan

Pronunciation

Article

era f

  1. feminine singular of eth

Pronoun

era

  1. (Gascony) she

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *aiʀu, from Proto-Germanic *aizō.

Noun

ēra f

  1. honour
  2. dignity

Derived terms

  • unēra

Descendants

  • Middle Dutch: êre
    • Dutch: eer
      • Afrikaans: eer
      • Negerhollands: eer
    • Limburgish: ieër

Further reading

  • “ēra”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old English

Verb

era

  1. imperative singular of erian

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *aiʀu, from Proto-Germanic *aizō, whence also Old English ār, Old Norse eir.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈeː.ra/

Noun

ēra f

  1. honour
  2. renown
  3. respect

Declension

Descendants

  • German: Ehre

References

  • Henry Frowde, An Old High German Primer
  • Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer with grammar, notes and glossary, Second Edition

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *aiʀu, from Proto-Germanic *aizō, whence also Old English ār, Old Norse eir.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɛː.rɑ/

Noun

ēra f

  1. honour
  2. renown
  3. glory

Declension


Descendants

  • Middle Low German: ēre
    • → Old Norse: æra
      • Danish: ære
      • Icelandic: æra
      • Faroese: æra
      • Norwegian Nynorsk: ære
      • Norwegian Bokmål: ære
      • Swedish: ära

Old Tupi

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *teT, from Proto-Tupian *jeT.

Cognate with Guaraní téra.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɛ.ɾa/
  • Rhymes: -ɛɾa
  • Hyphenation: e‧ra

Noun

era (possessable, IIa class pluriform, absolute tera, R1 rera, R2 sera)

  1. name

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Nheengatu: era
  • →⇒ Portuguese: xará

References

References

  • Antônio Lemos Barbosa (1956) Curso de tupi antigo: gramática, exercícios, textos [Course of Old Tupi: Grammar, Exercises, Texts]‎[5] (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Livraria São José
  • Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “era”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 109, column 1

Polish

Etymology

Internationalism; compare English era, French ère, German Ära, ultimately from Late Latin aera.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɛ.ra/
  • Rhymes: -ɛra
  • Syllabification: e‧ra

Noun

era f

  1. era

Declension

Related terms

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɛɾɐ
  • Homophones: hera, Hera
  • Hyphenation: e‧ra

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Late Latin aera.

Noun

era f (plural eras)

  1. era (time period of indeterminate length, generally more than one year)
    Synonym: época
  2. (archaeology) age (period of human prehistory)
    Synonym: idade
  3. (geology) era (unit of time, smaller than aeons and greater than periods)
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

era

  1. first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of ser

Rapa Nui

Etymology

From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *e-la. Cognates include Tuamotuan era and Maori ērā.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈe.ɾa/
  • Hyphenation: e‧ra

Determiner

era

  1. that
    Te vaka era. ― That canoe.

See also

References

  • Veronica Du Feu (1996) Rapanui (Descriptive Grammars), Routledge, →ISBN, page 145
  • Paulus Kieviet (2017) A grammar of Rapa Nui‎[6], Berlin: Language Science Press, →ISBN, page 194

Romanian

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [jeˈra]

Verb

era

  1. third-person singular imperfect indicative of fi: he/she was (being)
    el era pierdut
    he was lost
    el era sarcastic
    he was being sarcastic

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈera]

Noun

era f

  1. definite nominative/accusative singular of eră

Rwanda-Rundi

Verb

-êra (infinitive kwêra, perfective -êze)

  1. be white
  2. be pure, be innocent
  3. be holy
  4. be ripe

Derived terms

  • icyumweru / icumweru (“week”)
  • umwera (“white person”)
  • umweru (“something white”)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin aera.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ěːra/
  • Hyphenation: e‧ra

Noun

éra f (Cyrillic spelling е́ра)

  1. era

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈeɾa/ [ˈe.ɾa]
  • Rhymes: -eɾa
  • Syllabification: e‧ra

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

era

  1. first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of ser

See also

  • estaba

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Late Latin aera.

Noun

era f (plural eras)

  1. era, age
    la Nueva Era ― New Age
  2. (geology) era
Derived terms

Etymology 3

Inherited from Latin ārea. Compare the borrowed doublet área.

Noun

era f (plural eras)

  1. threshing floor
  2. tipple

Further reading

  • “era”, 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

Swedish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /eːra/
  • Hyphenation: e‧ra

Etymology 1

From Old Norse yðr, yðar, from Proto-Germanic *izwiz.

Alternative forms

  • edra (archaic)

Pronoun

era (singular form er)

  1. your, yours (multiple owners of more than one object)
  2. you (only in this use:)
Declension

Etymology 2

From Latin aera.

Noun

era c

  1. era
Declension

Anagrams

  • -are, rea

Tause

Noun

era

  1. water

See also

  • ira (Weirate and Deirate dialects)

References

  • Duane A. Clouse, 1997, Toward a reconstruction and reclassification of the Lakes Plain languages of Irian Jaya, In Karl J. Franklin (ed.), Papers in Papuan linguistics No. 2, 133-236. Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, page 172

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