different between aureolae vs aureole

English

Noun

aureolae

1. plural of aureola

Latin

Adjective

aureolae

1. nominative feminine plural of aureolus
2. genitive feminine singular of aureolus
3. dative feminine singular of aureolus
4. vocative feminine plural of aureolus

English

Etymology

From Middle English aureole, from Old French aureole, from Medieval Latin aureola (corona) ("golden (crown)").

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???ri???l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???ri?o?l/
• Homophone: oriole

Noun

aureole (plural aureoles)

1. A circle of light or halo around the head of a deity or a saint.
   • 1859, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Chapter 16:

     The lady's hair no woman could possess without feeling it her pride. It was the daily theme of her lady's-maid,—a natural aureole to her head.

   • 1915, W.S. Maugham, "Of Human Bondage", chapter 122:

     They sat quietly, side by side, without speaking. Philip enjoyed having her near him. He was warmed by her radiant health. A glow of life seemed like an aureole to shine about her.

   • 1916, Edwin Arllington Robinson, The Man Against the Sky, "The Voice of Age":

     She feels, with all our furniture,

     Room yet for something more secure

     Than our self-kindled aureoles

     To guide our poor forgotten souls […]

   • 2004, Andrea Levy, Small Island, London: Review, Chapter Four, p. 69,^[1]

     Those white women whose superiority encircled them like an aureole, could quieten any raucous gathering by just placing a finger to a lip.

2. (by extension) Any luminous or colored ring that encircles something.
   • 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part One, Chapter 1,^[2]

     It was a lean Jewish face, with a great fuzzy aureole of white hair and a small goatee beard […]

3. (astronomy) A corona.
4. (geology) A ring around an igneous intrusion.
   • 1990, Roger Mason, Petrology of the Metamorphic Rocks, Chapter 3: "Metamorphism associated with igneous intrusions":

     Cleavage and folds are imprinted are overprinted by the contact metamorphic aureole, indicating that they belong to a pre-intrustive episode of rock deformation and accompanying regional deformation.

Derived terms

• aureolate
• inaureole

Translations

Related terms

• aureolin
• oriole

References

• “aureole” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• "aureole" in the Wordsmyth Dictionary-Thesaurus (Wordsmyth, 2002)
• "aureole" in Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
• “aureole”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)
• Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary (1987-1996)

Italian

Noun

aureole f

1. plural of aureola

Latin

Adjective

aureole

1. vocative masculine singular of aureolus

Portuguese

Verb

aureole

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of aureolar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of aureolar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of aureolar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of aureolar

Spanish

Verb

aureole

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of aureolar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of aureolar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of aureolar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of aureolar.