aurora

Meaning

dawn, sunrise

Concepts

dawn

aurora

sunrise

🌅

cockcrow

daybreak

daylight

first light

crack of dawn

dayspring

light of dawn

James Thomson

dayrise

dawing

beginning

break of day

Synonyms

diluculum

initium

oriens

Translations

alba

Morgendämmerung

zonsopgang

🌅

aurore

aurora

aube

dageraad

Tagesanbruch

αυγή

Morgengrauen

lever du soleil

🌅

aurora

Dämmerung

alba

Pronounced as (IPA)

[au̯ˈroː.ra]

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *auzōs (as Flōra from flōs), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwsōs (“dawn”). In the Proto-Indo-European religion it was personified as the goddess of the dawn, corresponding to the Roman goddess Aurōra, from *h₂ews- (“east”). Cognates include the Latin auster, Ancient Greek ἠώς (ēṓs), Sanskrit उषस् (uṣás, “dawn”, “Ushas”), and the English east.