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English
Alternative forms
- æra (archaic)
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin aera.
Pronunciation
Noun
era (plural eras)
- A time period of indeterminate length, generally more than one year.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 6, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
- Even in an era when individuality in dress is a cult, his clothes were noticeable. He was wearing a hard hat of the low round kind favoured by hunting men, and with it a black duffle-coat lined with white.
- 2012 January, Philip E. Mirowski, “Harms to Health from the Pursuit of Profits”, in American Scientist[2], volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 4 April 2012, page 87:
- In an era when political leaders promise deliverance from decline through America’s purported preeminence in scientific research, the news that science is in deep trouble in the United States has been as unwelcome as a diagnosis of leukemia following the loss of health insurance.
- (geology) A geochronologic unit of tens to hundreds of millions of years; a subdivision of an eon, and subdivided into periods.
Synonyms
- (time period of indeterminate length): age, epoch, period
- See also Thesaurus:era
Hyponyms
- (cosmological time unit): stelliferous era, degenerate era, black hole era
- (geochronologic unit): Cenozoic era, erathem, Mesozoic era, Paleozoic era
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
Translations
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Further reading
Anagrams
Asturian
Etymology
From Late Latin aera.
Noun
era f (plural eres)
- era (time period)
Synonyms
Azerbaijani
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian э́ра (éra), ultimately from Late Latin aera.
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Noun
era (definite accusative eranı, plural eralar)
- era
- yeni eraya qədəm qoymaq ― to enter a new era
- eramızdan əvvəl ― before the commonera
Declension
Declension of era | ||||||||
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singular | plural | |||||||
nominative | era |
eralar | ||||||
definite accusative | eranı |
eraları | ||||||
dative | eraya |
eralara | ||||||
locative | erada |
eralarda | ||||||
ablative | eradan |
eralardan | ||||||
definite genitive | eranın |
eraların |
Further reading
- “era” in Obastan.com.
Basque
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Noun
era inan
Catalan
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Late Latin aera.
Noun
era f (plural eres)
Etymology 2
Inherited from Latin ārea (“open space; threshing floor”). Compare the borrowed doublet àrea.
Noun
era f (plural eres)
- small section of arable land destined for cultivation
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
era
- first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of ser
- first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of ésser
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, 2024
- “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
- (intransitive) to say
Related terms
Creek
Pronunciation
Noun
era
- his/her back
Inflection
References
- J. B. Martin, M. McKane Mauldrin (2004) A dictionary of Creek/Muscogee, University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 31
- J. B. Martin (2011) A grammar of Creek (Muscogee), University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 134
Dutch
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
era f (plural era's)
Esperanto
Pronunciation
Adjective
era (accusative singular eran, plural eraj, accusative plural erajn)
- adjective form of ero (“bit, piece”).
Fala
Verb
era
- first-person singular imperfect indicative of sel (“to be”)
- third-person singular imperfect indicative of sel (“to be”)
- 2000, Domingo Frades Gaspar, Vamus a falal: Notas pâ coñocel y platical en nosa fala, Editora regional da Extremadura, Theme IV, Chapter 1: Non Diptongación da “E” i a “O” en Nossa Fala:
- Tampocu era normal en o leonés antiguu, según os estudius dos escritus i textus estudiaus, por ejemplu por Menéndez Pidal, quen tamén viñu i estudió o mañegu.
- Neither was it normal in Old Leonese, according to studies of the writings and the texts studied, by Menéndez Pidal for example, who also came and studied Mañego.
Galician
Verb
era
Interlingua
Noun
era (plural eras)
Verb
era
- optional irregular past tense form of esser ("to be")
Italian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Late Latin aera.
Noun
era f (plural ere)
Etymology 2
Verb
era
Etymology 3
Verb
era
- (obsolete) Alternative form of ero, first-person singular imperfect indicative of essere
- mid 1300s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell][3], lines 10–12; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate][4], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
Anagrams
Ladino
Verb
era (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling אירה)
Latin
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈe.ra/, [ˈɛrä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈe.ra/, [ˈɛːrä]
Noun
era f (genitive erae, masculine erus); first declension
- mistress (of a house, with respect to the servants)
Declension
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | era | erae |
Genitive | erae | erārum |
Dative | erae | erīs |
Accusative | eram | erās |
Ablative | erā | erīs |
Vocative | era | erae |
Luganda
Conjunction
era
See also
References
The Essentials of Luganda, J. D. Chesswas, 4th edition. Oxford University Press: Nairobi. 1967, p. 95.
Mirandese
Pronunciation
Verb
era
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
era
Occitan
Pronunciation
Article
era f
Pronoun
era
Old Dutch
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *aiʀu, from Proto-Germanic *aizō.
Noun
ēra f
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “ēra”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012
Old High German
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *aiʀu, from Proto-Germanic *aizō, whence also Old English ār, Old Norse eir.
Pronunciation
Noun
ēra f
Declension
case | singular | plural |
---|---|---|
nominative | ēra | ērā |
accusative | ēra | ērā |
genitive | ēra | ērōno |
dative | ēru | ērōm |
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 *aiʀu, from Proto-Germanic *aizō, whence also Old English ār, Old Norse eir.
Pronunciation
Noun
ēra f
Declension
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | era | era |
accusative | era | era |
genitive | era, eru, ero | erono |
dative | eru, ero, era | eron, erum, erun |
instrumental | — | — |
Descendants
- Middle Low German: ēre
Old Tupi
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *teT, from Proto-Tupian *jeT.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
era (IIa class pluriform, absolute tera, R1 rera, R2 sera) (possessable)
Derived terms
Descendants
References
References
- Antônio Lemos Barbosa (1956) Curso de tupi antigo: gramática, exercícios, textos [Course of Old Tupi: Grammar, Exercises, Texts][5] (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Livraria São José
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “era”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 109, column 1
Polish
Etymology
Internationalism; compare English era, French ère, German Ära, ultimately from Late Latin aera.
Pronunciation
Noun
era f
Declension
Related terms
Further reading
- era in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- era in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Late Latin aera.
Noun
era f (plural eras)
- era (time period of indeterminate length, generally more than one year)
- Synonym: época
- (archaeology) age (period of human prehistory)
- Synonym: idade
- (geology) era (unit of time, smaller than aeons and greater than periods)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Verb
era
Rapa Nui
Etymology
From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *e-la. Cognates include Tuamotuan era and Maori ērā.
Pronunciation
Determiner
era
- that
- Te vaka era. ― That canoe.
See also
Demonstrative determiners | ||||
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Neutral | Proximal | Medial | Distal | |
tū, hū1) | nei, nī2) | nā | rā | |
Postnuclear demonstratives | ||||
Neutral | Proximal | Medial | Distal | |
— | nei | ena | era | |
Demonstrative pronouns | ||||
Neutral | Proximal | Medial | Distal | |
ira | nei | nā | rā | |
Demonstrative locationals | ||||
Neutral | Proximal | Medial | Distal | |
— | nei | nā | rā | |
1) Emphatic 2) Rare |
References
- Veronica Du Feu (1996) Rapanui (Descriptive Grammars), Routledge, →ISBN, page 145
- Paulus Kieviet (2017) A grammar of Rapa Nui[6], Berlin: Language Science Press, →ISBN, page 194
Romanian
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
Verb
era
- third-person singular imperfect indicative of fi: he/she was (being)
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Noun
era f
Rwanda-Rundi
Verb
-êra (infinitive kwêra, perfective -êze)
Derived terms
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin aera.
Pronunciation
Noun
éra f (Cyrillic spelling е́ра)
Declension
Spanish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
era
See also
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Late Latin aera.
Noun
era f (plural eras)
Derived terms
Etymology 3
Inherited from Latin ārea. Compare the borrowed doublet área.
Noun
era f (plural eras)
Further reading
- “era”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old Norse yðr, yðar, from Proto-Germanic *izwiz.
Alternative forms
Pronoun
era (singular form er)
- your, yours (multiple owners of more than one object)
- you (only in this use:)
- Era jävla idioter!
- You bloody idiots!
- Era små fan!
- You little bastards!
Declension
Number | Person | Type | Nominative | Oblique | Possessive | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
common | neuter | plural | |||||
singular | first | — | jag | mig, mej3 | min | mitt | mina |
second | — | du | dig, dej3 | din | ditt | dina | |
third | masculine (person) | han | honom, han2, en5 | hans | |||
feminine (person) | hon | henne, na5 | hennes | ||||
gender-neutral (person)1 | hen | hen, henom7 | hens | ||||
common (noun) | den | den | dess | ||||
neuter (noun) | det | det | dess | ||||
indefinite | man or en4 | en | ens | ||||
reflexive | — | sig, sej3 | sin | sitt | sina | ||
plural | first | — | vi | oss | vår, våran2 | vårt, vårat2 | våra |
second | — | ni | er | er, eran2, ers6 | ert, erat2 | era | |
archaic | I | eder | eder, eders6 | edert | edra | ||
third | — | de, dom3 | dem, dom3 | deras | |||
reflexive | — | sig, sej3 | sin | sitt | sina |
Etymology 2
Noun
era c
Declension
Declension of era | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | era | eran | eror | erorna |
Genitive | eras | erans | erors | erornas |
Anagrams
Tause
Noun
era
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
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