different between aura vs tone

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin aura (“a breeze, a breath of air, the air”), from Ancient Greek ???? (aúra, “breeze, soft wind”), from ??? (a?r, “air”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?????/
• Rhymes: -????

Noun

aura (plural aurae or auræ or auras)

1. Distinctive atmosphere or quality associated with something.
2. (parapsychology) An invisible force surrounding a living creature.
3. (medicine) Perceptual disturbance experienced by some migraine sufferers before a migraine headache.
4. (medicine) Telltale sensation experienced by some people with epilepsy before a seizure.

Synonyms

(atmosphere):

• air
• feeling
• mood
• spirit
• vibe

Derived terms

• auraed
• auratic

Translations

Further reading

• aura in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• aura in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• aura at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Arau

Catalan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?aw.??/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?aw.?a/

Noun

aura f (plural aures)

1. gentle breeze

   Synonym: ora

2. popularity
3. aura

Further reading

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

Dalmatian

Noun

aura f

1. Alternative form of jaura

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??u?.ra?/
• Hyphenation: au?ra

Noun

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

1. aura

Finnish

(index au)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??u?r?/, [??u?r?]
• Rhymes: -?ur?
• Syllabification: au?ra

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *atra (compare Estonian ader), borrowed from Proto-Germanic *arþr? (compare Old Norse arðr), from Proto-Indo-European *h?érh?trom.

Noun

aura

1. plough, plow

2. wedge (group of birds flying in a V-shaped formation)

Declension

Derived terms

• aura-auto
• aurata
• kurkiaura
• aurajuusto

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin aura.

Noun

aura

1. aura

Declension

Anagrams

• raau, uraa

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o.?a/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin aura.

Noun

aura f (plural auras)

1. aura

Etymology 2

Verb

aura

1. third-person singular future of avoir

Further reading

• “aura” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Hungarian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??ur?]
• Hyphenation: au?ra
• Rhymes: -r?

Noun

aura (plural aurák)

1. aura

Declension

Indonesian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

aura (plural aura-aura, 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.

Further reading

• “aura” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Etymology

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

Noun

aura f (plural aure)

1. aura
2. light breeze

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???? (aúra).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?au?.ra/, [?äu??ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?au?.ra/, [???u?r?]

Noun

aura f (genitive aurae); first declension

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

     ?n ego, n?n pauc?s quondam m?n?tus am?c?s,
          dum fl?vit v?l?s aura secunda me?s,
     ut fera nimb?s? tumu?runt aequora vent?,
          in medi?s lacer? n?ve relinquor aqu?s.

     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.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Synonyms

• ??r
• ventus
• sp?ritus

Descendants

References

• 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?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Old Norse

Etymology

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

aura

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

Polish

Etymology

From Latin aura, from Ancient Greek ???? (aúr?).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.wra/

Noun

aura f

1. aura

Declension

Further reading

• aura in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

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

Noun

aura f (plural auras)

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

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) ora

Etymology

From Latin aura.

Noun

aura f

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) weather

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?au?a/, [?au?.?a]

Etymology 1

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

Noun

aura f (plural auras)

1. aura

Etymology 2

Noun

aura f (plural auras)

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

Further reading

• “aura” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Weyewa

Noun

aura

1. (Loli) vow, oath, pledge

References

• 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

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English ton, tone, from Latin tonus (“sound, tone”) (possibly through Old French ton), from Ancient Greek ????? (tónos, “strain, tension, pitch”), from ????? (teín?, “I stretch”). Doublet of tune, ton, and tonus.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: t?n, IPA^(key): /t??n/
• (US) enPR: t?n, IPA^(key): /to?n/
• Rhymes: -??n

Noun

tone (plural tones)

1. (music) A specific pitch.
2. (music) (in the diatonic scale) An interval of a major second.
3. (music) (in a Gregorian chant) A recitational melody.
4. The character of a sound, especially the timbre of an instrument or voice.
5. General character, mood, or trend.

   Her rousing speech gave an upbeat tone to the rest of the evening.

6. (linguistics) The pitch of a word that distinguishes a difference in meaning, for example in Chinese.
7. (dated) A whining style of speaking; a kind of mournful or artificial strain of voice; an affected speaking with a measured rhythm and a regular rise and fall of the voice.

   Children often read with a tone.

8. (literature) The manner in which speech or writing is expressed.
   • 1850, William Cullen Bryant, Letters of a Traveller

     Their tone was dissatisfied, almost menacing.

9. (obsolete) State of mind; temper; mood.
   • c. 1714 (undated), Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, letter to Alexander Pope

     The strange situation I am in and the melancholy state of public affairs, […] drag the mind down […] from a philosophical tone or temper, to the drudgery of private and public business.

10. The shade or quality of a colour.
11. The favourable effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, or of colours.

    This picture has tone.

12. The definition and firmness of a muscle or organ; see also: tonus.
13. (biology) The state of a living body or of any of its organs or parts in which the functions are healthy and performed with due vigor.
14. (biology) Normal tension or responsiveness to stimuli.
15. (African-American Vernacular, slang) a gun

Synonyms

• (an interval of a major second): whole tone

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

tone (third-person singular simple present tones, present participle toning, simple past and past participle toned)

1. (transitive) to give a particular tone to
2. (transitive) to change the colour of
3. (transitive) to make (something) firmer
4. (intransitive) to harmonize, especially in colour
5. (transitive) to utter with an affected tone.

Synonyms

• (give a particular tone to):
• (change the colour of): color/colour, dye, paint, tint
• (make firmer): firm, firm up, tone up
• (harmonize): harmonise/harmonize
• (utter with an affected tone):

Derived terms

• betone
• toned
• tone down
• toner
• tone up
• tony, toney (affected tone)

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English tone, ton, toon, from the incorrect division of thet one (“the/that one”). Compare Scots tane in the tane; see also tother.

Pronoun

tone

1. (now dialectal) the one (of two)

Further reading

• tone in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• tone in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

References

Anagrams

• ETNO, Eton, Note, Teno, ento-, note, teno-

Afrikaans

Noun

tone

1. plural of toon

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse tóni, from Latin tonus (“sound, tone”), from Ancient Greek ????? (tónos, “strain, tension, pitch”), from ????? (teín?, “I stretch”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /to?n?/, [?t?o?n?]

Noun

tone c (singular definite tonen, plural indefinite toner)

1. tone
2. note

Declension

Verb

tone (imperative ton, infinitive at tone, present tense toner, past tense tonede, perfect tense har tonet)

1. to sound
2. to tone
3. to tint

References

• “tone” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

tone

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of tonen

Anagrams

• toen

Latin

Noun

tone

1. vocative singular of tonus

Middle English

Pronoun

tone

1. the one (of two)

   • So wythin the thirde day, there cam to the cité thes two brethirne: the tone hyght Sir Helyus and the other hyght Helake

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse tóni, from Latin tonus (“sound, tone”), from Ancient Greek ????? (tónos, “strain, tension, pitch”), from ????? (teín?, “I stretch”).

Noun

tone m (definite singular tonen, indefinite plural toner, definite plural tonene)

1. a tone (sound, colour etc.)

Derived terms

• halvtone

References

• “tone” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse tóni, from Latin tonus (“sound, tone”), from Ancient Greek ????? (tónos, “strain, tension, pitch”), from ????? (teín?, “I stretch”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²tu?n?/

Noun

tone m (definite singular tonen, indefinite plural tonar, definite plural tonane)

1. a tone (sound, colour etc.)

Derived terms

• halvtone
• tonekunst

References

• “tone” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swahili

Pronunciation

Noun

tone (ma class, plural matone)

1. drop

Tokelauan

Etymology

Borrowed from English ton.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?to.ne/
• Hyphenation: to?ne

Noun

tone

1. ton

Alternative forms

• tane

References

• R. Simona, editor (1986) Tokelau Dictionary?^[2], Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 397