Feminine

aurora

Meaning

  1. (feminine) dawn; daybreak
  2. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, feminine) clipping of aurora boreal
  3. (feminine, poetic) Orient

Translations

Frequency

C1
Pronounced as (IPA)
/awˈɾɔ.ɾɐ/
Etymology

In summary

Learned borrowing from Latin aurōra (“dawn, sunrise”), from the Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwsōs (“dawn”).

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