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area
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin area.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: âr'??, IPA(key): /????????/
- (US) enPR: ?r'??, IPA(key): /?æ?.i.?/, /???.i.?/
Noun
area (plural areas or areæ)
- (mathematics) A measure of the extent of a surface; it is measured in square units.
- 2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns
- It is about 4.5 million square kilometers in area and holds the world’s third largest collection of ice after Antarctica and Greenland.
- 2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns
- A particular geographic region.
- Any particular extent of surface, especially an empty or unused extent.
- The extent, scope, or range of an object or concept.
- (Britain) 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.]
- 1790, Helen Maria Williams, Julia, Routledge 2016, p. 95:
- A boy seized it, whom she bribed with a shilling to relinquish his prize, which she was taking home, when it escaped from her hand, and fell down the area of a house.
- 1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, ch 4:
- This was so favourably received by the milkman and beadle that he would immediately have been pushed into the area if I had not held his pinafore while Richard and Mr. Guppy ran down through the kitchen to catch him when he should be released.
- 1908, Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans":
- A minute later we were both in the area. Hardly had we reached the dark shadows before the step of the policeman was heard in the fog above. As its soft rhythm died away, Holmes set to work upon the lower door. I saw him stoop and strain until with a sharp crash it flew open. We sprang through into the dark passage, closing the area door behind us.
- 1790, Helen Maria Williams, Julia, Routledge 2016, p. 95:
- (soccer) Penalty box; penalty area.
- (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
Noun
area (plural areas)
- area
Derived terms
- leerarea
Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician and Old Portuguese ar?a, from Latin ar?n? (“sand”). Cognate with Portuguese areia and Spanish arena.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a??ea?/
Noun
area f (plural areas)
- sand (a grain)
- (figuratively) a grain of salt
- sand (collectively)
- Synonyms: xabre, saibro
- (dated) beach, cove
- Synonyms: areal, praia, arnela
Derived terms
See also
- área
References
- “area” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
- “area” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
- “area” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
- “area” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “area” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin ?rea. Doublet of Italian aia (“threshing floor”).
Noun
area f (plural aree)
- area, surface
- land, ground
- field, sector
Related terms
- areale
Anagrams
- aera
Latin
Etymology
- Either from Proto-Italic *?ze?, from Proto-Indo-European *h?eHs-e-yeh?, from *h?eHs- (“to burn”) (whence ?re?, ?r?),
- Or from Proto-Italic *?re?, from Proto-Indo-European *h?eh?r-e-yeh?, from *h?eh?rh?- (“threshing tool”) (cognate with Hittite [script needed] (?a??ar, “rake, threshing tool”)), resultative reduplicated noun from verb *h?erh?- (“to plough”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?a?.re.a/, [?ä??eä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?a.re.a/, [??????]
Noun
?rea f (genitive ?reae); first declension
- a piece of level ground, a vacant place (esp. in the town)
- ground for a house, a building-spot
- (figuratively) a vacant space around or in a house, a court
- (figuratively) an open space for games, an open play-ground
- (figuratively) a threshing floor
- (figuratively) the halo around the sun or moon
- (figuratively) a bed or border in a garden
- (figuratively) a fowling-floor
- (figuratively) a burying-ground, church-yard
- (figuratively) a bald spot upon the head, baldness
- vocative singular of ?rea
Declension
First-declension noun.
Derived terms
- ?realis
- ?reola
Descendants
Borrowings:
Noun
?re? f
- ablative singular of ?rea
References
- 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, 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 and English area.
Noun
area
- area
Portuguese
Noun
area f (plural areas)
- Obsolete spelling of área
Swedish
Etymology
From Latin area (literally “vacant piece of level ground”)
Noun
area c
- (geometry) area; a measure of squared distance.
Declension
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proscenium
English
Alternative forms
- proscænium
Etymology
From Latin proscaenium (“in front of the scenery”), from Ancient Greek ?????????? (prosk?nion), from ??? (pró, “before”) + ????? (sk?n?, “scene building”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /p????si?.ni.?m/
- (US) IPA(key): /p?o??si?.ni.?m/
Noun
proscenium (plural prosceniums or proscenia)
- (in a modern theater) The stage area between the curtain and the orchestra.
- (in an ancient theater) The stage area immediately in front of the scene building.
- (in an ancient theater) The row of columns at the front the scene building, at first directly behind the circular orchestra but later upon a stage.
- 1936, Roy C. Flickinger, The Greek Theater and Its Drama, 4th edition, page 58
- The front of the scene-building and of the parascenia came to be decorated with a row of columns, the proscenium (???, "before"+?????).
- 1936, Roy C. Flickinger, The Greek Theater and Its Drama, 4th edition, page 58
- A proscenium arch.
Coordinate terms
Translations
Danish
Noun
proscenium n (singular definite prosceniet, plural indefinite proscenier)
- proscenium
Inflection
Latin
Alternative forms
- proscaenium
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ?????????? (prosk?nion), from ??? (pró, “before”) + ????? (sk?n?, “scene building”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /pros?ke?.ni.um/, [p??s??ke?ni???]
- (Vulgar) IPA(key): /pros?ke?.ni.u/, [pros?ke?n?u]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /pro??e.ni.um/, [p??????nium]
Noun
prosc?nium n (genitive prosc?ni? or prosc?n?); second declension
- proscenium
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter), with locative.
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
- ? English: proscenium
- French: proscénium
- Italian: proscenio
References
- proscenium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- proscenium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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