different between aerian vs aurian

English

Alternative forms

• aërian

Etymology

From the French aérien, from the Old French aerïen, from the Classical Latin ?erius; compare aerial.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?î?r??n, â?r??n, IPA^(key): /e???????n/, /??????n/
• (US) enPR: ?'î?r??n, â?r??n, IPA^(key): /?e????i.?n/, /???i.?n/

Adjective

aerian (not comparable)

1. (rare) Of or belonging to the atmosphere or to the air; aerial.
   • 2001, Allen S. Weiss, translating an extract from page 113 of the 1979 Union Générale d’Éditions republication of Marcel Schwob’s “La Machine à Parler” (a short story which first appeared in his 1892 collection Le Roi au Masque d’Or), for “Narcissistic Machines and Erotic Prostheses”, essay 2 (occupying pages 51–74) of Camera Obscura, Camera Lucida: Essays in Honor of Annette Michelson (2003, Amsterdam University Press, ?ISBN, edited by Richard Allen and Malcolm Turvey; the quotation is from page 68 of Camera Obscura

     The voice, which is the aerian sign of thought, whence of the soul, which instructs, preaches, exhorts, prays, praises, loves, through which the entire being is manifested in life, nearly palpable by the blind, impossible to describe because it is too undulating and diverse, in fact too alive and incarnate in too many sonorous forms, the voice that Théophile Gautier gave up trying to put into words because it is neither soft, nor dry, nor hot, nor cold, nor colorless, nor colorful, but has something of all that in another domain, that voice that one cannot touch, that one cannot see, that most immaterial of terrestrial things, that which most resembles a spirit, is stolen on the fly by science with a stylet and buried in small holes on a turning cylinder.

References

• “aerian, a.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary (second edition, 1989)
• “aerian, adj.²” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary (draft revision, June 2008)

Anagrams

• Ariane

Romanian

Etymology

From French aérien.

Adjective

aerian m or n (feminine singular aerian?, masculine plural aerieni, feminine and neuter plural aeriene)

1. aerial

Declension

English

Etymology

auro- +? -ian

Adjective

aurian (comparative more aurian, superlative most aurian)

1. (mineralogy) Describing minerals that contain gold

Anagrams

• Urania, anuria, urania