different between auroral vs aurora

English

Etymology

aurora +? -al.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /????????l/, /????????l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??????l/, /??????l/

Adjective

auroral (comparative more auroral, superlative most auroral)

1. Pertaining to the dawn; dawning, eastern, like a new beginning.

   Synonym: aurorean

   • 1684, Francis Bampfield, Miqra ?qad?sh […] A Grammatical Opening of Some Hebrew Words and Phrases, London: John Lawrence, p. 36,^[1]

     This first created light is properly the auroral light.

   • 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, New York: Longmans, Green, Lectures 11, 12 and 13, pp. 266-7,^[2]

     This auroral openness and uplift gives to all creative ideal levels a bright and caroling quality, which is nowhere more marked than where the controlling emotion is religious.

   • 1928, Virginia Woolf, Orlando, Penguin, 1942, Chapter 1, p. 19,^[3]

     Sunsets were redder and more intense; dawns were whiter and more auroral.

   • 1958, Jean Stafford, “The Children’s Game” in The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1969, pp. 25-26,^[4]

     Hugh kissed her and Abby felt as young and tremulous as a schoolgirl. But she was not demanding and she was not headlong and she counseled herself to look on this tenuous, auroral experience as one that would last only so long as she remained in England […]

2. Rosy in colour.

   Synonyms: blushing, roseate

   • 1863, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Student’s Tale” in Tales of a Wayside Inn, Boston: Ticknor and Fields, p. 38,^[5]

     Her cheeks suffused with an auroral blush,

3. Pertaining to the aurora borealis or aurora australis.
   • 1878, Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native, London: Smith, Elder, Volume 1, Chapter 10, p. 194,^[6]

     The creature brought within him an amplitude of Northern knowledge. Glacial catastrophes, snow-storm episodes, glittering auroral effects, Polaris in the zenith, Franklin underfoot,—the category of his commonplaces was wonderful.

References

• auroral in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /au?o??al/, [au?.?o??al]

Adjective

auroral (plural aurorales)

1. auroral

Related terms

• aurora

Further reading

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

English

Etymology

From Latin aur?ra (“dawn”). Doublet of Eos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?????.??/, /??????.??/
• Rhymes: -????
• Hyphenation: au?ro?ra

Noun

aurora (plural auroras or aurorae)

1. An atmospheric phenomenon created by charged particles from the sun striking the upper atmosphere, creating coloured lights in the sky. It is usually named australis or borealis based on whether it is in the Southern or Northern Hemisphere respectively.

Synonyms

• chasma (obsolete, rare)
• polar light

Hyponyms

• (Northern Hemisphere): aurora borealis, northern lights
• (Southern Hemisphere): aurora australis, southern lights

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• aroura

Italian

Etymology

From Latin aur?ra, from an ?-stem extension of Proto-Italic *auz?s, from Proto-Indo-European *h?éws?s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aw?r?.ra/
• Hyphenation: au?rò?ra

Noun

aurora f (plural aurore)

1. dawn, sunrise

   Antonym: tramonto

2. aurora

Related terms

• aurora boreale
• aurorale

See also

• (times of day) parte del giorno; aurora,? alba,? mattino/?mattina,? mezzogiorno,? pomeriggio,? tramonto,? crepuscolo,? sera,? notte,? mezzanotte ^{(Category: it:Time) [edit]}

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *auz?s (as Fl?ra from fl?s), from Proto-Indo-European *h?éws?s (“dawn”). In the Proto-Indo-European religion it was personified as the goddess of the dawn, corresponding to the Roman goddess Aur?ra, from *h?ews- (“east”).

Cognates include the Latin auster, Ancient Greek ??? (??s), ??? (??s), the Sanskrit ???? (u?ás, “dawn”, “Ushas”), and the Old English ?ostre (modern Easter), English east.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

aur?ra f (genitive aur?rae); first declension

1. dawn, sunrise

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

• aur?reus

Related terms

• Aur?ra

Descendants

References

• aurora in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• aurora in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• aurora in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• aurora in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• aurora in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• aurora in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin aur?ra (“dawn, sunrise”), from the Proto-Indo-European *h?éws?s (“dawn”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /aw.???.??/
• Hyphenation: au?ro?ra

Noun

aurora f (plural auroras)

1. dawn; daybreak
2. Clipping of aurora boreal.

Romanian

Noun

aurora f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of auror?

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin aur?ra.

Noun

aurora f (plural auroras)

1. aurora

Derived terms

• aurora austral
• aurora boreal

Related terms

• auroral

Further reading

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