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English

Alternative forms

• æra (archaic)

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin aera.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: îr'?, IPA^(key): /?????.?/
• Rhymes: -????
• (US) enPR: ?r'?, IPA^(key): /???.?/
• Homophone: error (in non-rhotic accents)
• Rhymes: -???

Noun

era (plural eras)

1. A time period of indeterminate length, generally more than one year.
2. (geology) A unit of time, smaller than eons and greater than periods.

Synonyms

• (time period of indeterminate length): age, epoch, period
• See also Thesaurus:era

Coordinate terms

• (geological time units) supereon, aeon/eon, era, period, epoch, age/sub-epoch

Hyponyms

• (cosmological time unit): stelliferous era, degenerate era, black hole era
• (geological time unit): Cenozoic era, erathem, Mesozoic era, Paleozoic era

Translations

Anagrams

• 'ear, ARE, Aer, EAR, REA, Rae, Rea, aer-, are, aër-, ear, rea

Asturian

Etymology

From Late Latin aera.

Noun

era f (plural eres)

1. era (time period)

Synonyms

• época

Azerbaijani

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian ???? (éra), ultimately from Late Latin aera.

Noun

era (definite accusative eran?, plural eralar)

1. era

Declension

Further reading

• “era” in Obastan.com.

Basque

Noun

era inan

1. manner

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?e.??/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?e.?a/
• Rhymes: -e?a

Etymology 1

From Late Latin aera.

Noun

era f (plural eres)

1. era (time period)

   Synonym: època

Etymology 2

From Old Occitan, inherited from Latin ?rea (“open space; threshing floor”). Compare the borrowed doublet àrea.

Noun

era f (plural eres)

1. Small section of arable land destined for cultivation.

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

era

1. first-person singular imperfect indicative form of ser
2. third-person singular imperfect indicative form of ser

Further reading

• “era” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “era” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “era” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “era” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Chuukese

Verb

era

1. (intransitive) to say

Related terms

• ereni

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin aera.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e?.ra?/
• Hyphenation: era
• Rhymes: -e?ra?

Noun

era f (plural era's)

1. era, age, epoch

   Synonyms: eeuw, tijdperk

2. (dated) era, calendar

   Synonym: jaartelling

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?era/
• Hyphenation: er?a
• Rhymes: -era

Adjective

era (accusative singular eran, plural eraj, accusative plural erajn)

1. adjective form of ero (“bit, piece”).

Fala

Verb

era

1. third-person singular imperfect indicative of sel

Galician

Verb

era

1. first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of ser

Interlingua

Noun

era (plural eras)

1. era

Italian

Etymology

From Late Latin aera.

Noun

era f (plural ere)

1. age, epoch, period
2. (geology) era

Verb

era

1. third-person singular imperfect indicative of essere

See also

• epoca
• età

Anagrams

• are, rea

Ladino

Verb

era (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling ?????)

1. first-person singular imperfect indicative of ser
2. third-person singular imperfect indicative of ser

Latin

Alternative forms

• hera

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?e.ra/, [???ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?e.ra/, [?????]

Noun

era f (genitive erae, masculine erus); first declension

1. mistress (of a house, with respect to the servants)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Luganda

Conjunction

era

1. and then (only used for occurrences in chronological order)

See also

• ne

References

The Essentials of Luganda, J. D. Chesswas, 4th edition. Oxford University Press: Nairobi. 1967, p. 95.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

era

1. (archaic or dialectal) plural present of vera

Occitan

Article

era f

1. feminine singular of eth

Pronoun

era

1. (Gascony) she

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *ai?u, from Proto-Germanic *aiz?.

Noun

?ra f

1. honour
2. dignity

Derived terms

• un?ra

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: êre
  • Dutch: eer
    • Afrikaans: eer
  • Limburgish: ieër

Further reading

• “?ra”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *ai?u, from Proto-Germanic *aiz?, whence also Old English ?r, Old Norse eir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e?.ra/

Noun

?ra f

1. honour
2. renown
3. respect

Declension

Descendants

• German: Ehre

References

• Henry Frowde, An Old High German Primer
• Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer with grammar, notes and glossary, Second Edition

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *ai?u, from Proto-Germanic *aiz?, whence also Old English ?r, Old Norse eir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???.r?/

Noun

?ra f

1. honour
2. renown
3. glory

Declension

Old Tupi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????a/, /?t??a/

Noun

era

1. name

Usage notes

• The stem era could never be used inside a sentence without a prefix. The absolute form tera was used whenever the noun was not possessed.

References

• LEMOS BARBOSA, A. Curso de Tupi antigo. Rio de Janeiro: Livraria São José, 1956.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.ra/

Noun

era f

1. era

Declension

Related terms

• n.e., p.n.e.

Further reading

• era in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• era in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /??.??/
• Hyphenation: e?ra
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• Homophones: hera, Hera
• Rhymes: -?ra

Etymology 1

Inflected form of ser (“to be”).

Verb

era

1. first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of ser

Etymology 2

From Late Latin aera.

Noun

era f (plural eras)

1. era (time period of indeterminate length, generally more than one year)

   Synonym: época

2. (archaeology) age (period of human prehistory)

   Synonym: idade

3. (geology) era (unit of time, smaller than aeons and greater than periods)

Derived terms

Rapa Nui

Pronoun

era

1. that

Romanian

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [je?ra]

Verb

era

1. third-person singular imperfect indicative of fi: he/she was (being)

   el era pierdut

   he was lost

   el era sarcastic

   he was being sarcastic

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?era]

Noun

era f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of er?

Rwanda-Rundi

Verb

-êra (infinitive kwêra, perfective -êze)

1. be white
2. be pure, be innocent
3. be holy
4. be ripe

Derived terms

• icyumweru / icumweru (“week”)
• umwera (“white person”)
• umweru (“something white”)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin aera.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ra/
• Hyphenation: e?ra

Noun

éra f (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. era

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: e?ra

Etymology 1

see ser

Verb

era

1. First-person singular (yo) imperfect indicative form of ser.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperfect indicative form of ser.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) imperfect indicative form of ser.

See also

• estaba

Etymology 2

From Late Latin aera.

Noun

era f (plural eras)

1. era, age

2. (geology) era

Etymology 3

Inherited from Latin ?rea. Compare the borrowed doublet área.

Noun

era f (plural eras)

1. threshing floor
2. tipple

Swedish

Alternative forms

• edra (archaic)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e?ra/
• Hyphenation: e?ra

Etymology 1

From Old Norse yðr, yðar, from Proto-Germanic *izwiz.

Pronoun

era (singular form er)

1. your, yours (multiple owners of more than one object)
2. you (only in this use:)

Declension

Etymology 2

From Latin aera.

Noun

era c

1. era

Declension

Anagrams

• -are, rea

Tause

Noun

era

1. water

See also

• ira (Weirate and Deirate dialects)

References

• Duane A. Clouse, 1997, Toward a reconstruction and reclassification of the Lakes Plain languages of Irian Jaya, In Karl J. Franklin (ed.), Papers in Papuan linguistics No. 2, 133-236. Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, page 172

English

Etymology

From Middle English duracioun, from late Old French duracion, from Medieval Latin d?r?ti?.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dj???e??n?/, /d????e??n?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /d???e??n?/, /dj???e??n?/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

duration (countable and uncountable, plural durations)

1. An amount of time or a particular time interval.

2. (in the singular, not followed by "of") The time taken for the current situation to end, especially the current war

3. (finance) A measure of the sensitivity of the price of a financial asset to changes in interest rates, computed for a simple bond as a weighted average of the maturities of the interest and principal payments associated with it.

Translations

See also

• Duration (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Bond duration on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• dictionary.reference.com entry

Anagrams

• drain out

Middle French

Etymology

From late Old French duracion, borrowed from Latin d?r?ti?, d?r?ti?nem.

Noun

duration f (plural durations)

1. duration (length with respect to time)