# aera
## English
### Noun

aera (plural aeras)
* Obsolete form of era.
** 1809, James Finlayson, Sermons (page 9)
    Would he not have anticipated an aera of high intellectual cultivation, and hailed with rapture the return of that fabled age of gold, […]

## Esperanto
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [aˈera]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -era
* Hyphenation: a‧e‧ra

### Adjective

aera (accusative singular aeran, plural aeraj, accusative plural aerajn)
* aerial; airy; in the air
    tute libera, kiel birdo aera ― completely free, like a bird in the air
* relating to aviation
    aera konvencio ― convention on aviation

#### Related terms

* aero

## Irish
### Noun

aera m pl
* vocative plural of aer (“air”)

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈa.e.ra/
* Rhymes: -aera
* Hyphenation: à‧e‧ra

### Verb

aera
* inflection of aerare:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Anagrams

* area

## Latin
### Etymology 1

Post-classical; probably from a special use of aera (“counters”), plural of aes (“piece of metal, money, brass”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈae̯.ra/, [ˈäe̯rä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈe.ra/, [ˈɛːrä]

#### Noun

aera f (genitive aerae); first declension
* (Late Latin) era or epoch from which time is measured

##### Declension

First-declension noun.

##### Descendants

* Asturian: era
* Catalan: era
* → Danish: æra
* → Dutch: era
* → English: era
* French: ère
* Galician: era
* → German: Ära
* Italian: era
* Portuguese: era
* Romanian: eră
* Spanish: era

#### Noun

aera
* nominative/accusative/vocative plural of aes (“counters; the items of a computed sum”)

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈaː.e.ra/, [ˈäːɛrä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈa.e.ra/, [ˈäːerä]

#### Noun

āera
* accusative singular of āēr

### References

* “aera”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* "aera", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* aera in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* “aera”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “aera”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

## Portuguese
### Verb

aera
* inflection of aerar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Romanian
### Etymology

From aer, partially based on French aérer.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /a.eˈra/
* Rhymes: -a
* Hyphenation: a‧e‧ra

### Verb

a aera (third-person singular present aerează, past participle aerat) 1st conjugation
* to air, aerate
    Synonym: aerisi

#### Conjugation
## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aˈeɾa/ [aˈe.ɾa]
* Rhymes: -eɾa
* Syllabification: a‧e‧ra

### Verb

aera
* inflection of aerar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative