# aureole
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English aureole, from Old French aureole, from Medieval Latin aureola (corona) (“golden (crown)”). Doublet of oriole.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈɔː.ɹiː.əʊl/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (US) IPA: /ˈɔɹ.i.oʊl/
* Homophone: oriole

### Noun

aureole (plural aureoles)
* A circle of light or halo around the head of a deity or a saint.
** 1859, George Meredith, chapter 16, in The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. A History of Father and Son. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC:The lady's hair no woman could possess without feeling it her pride. It was the daily theme of her lady's-maid,—a natural aureole to her head.
** 1915, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 122”, in Of Human Bondage, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC:They sat quietly, side by side, without speaking. Philip enjoyed having her near him. He was warmed by her radiant health. A glow of life seemed like an aureole to shine about her.
** 1916, Edwin Arlington Robinson, “The Voice of Age”, in The Man Against the Sky:She feels, with all our furniture, Room yet for something more secure Than our self-kindled aureoles To guide our poor forgotten souls […]
** 2004, Andrea Levy, chapter 4, in Small Island‎, London: Review, page 69:Those white women whose superiority encircled them like an aureole, could quieten any raucous gathering by just placing a finger to a lip.
* (by extension) Any luminous or colored ring that encircles something.
** 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four‎, Part One, Chapter 1:It was a lean Jewish face, with a great fuzzy aureole of white hair and a small goatee beard […]
** 1972, Ursula K. Le Guin, chapter 6, in The Farthest Shore, Atheneum Books:The dust of the road and his long, wiry hair made aureoles of red about him in the westering light […]
* (astronomy) A corona.
* (geology) A ring around an igneous intrusion.
** 1990, Roger Mason, Petrology of the Metamorphic Rocks, Chapter 3: "Metamorphism associated with igneous intrusions":
    Cleavage and folds are imprinted are overprinted by the contact metamorphic aureole, indicating that they belong to a pre-intrustive episode of rock deformation and accompanying regional deformation.
* (theology) Alternative form of aureola (“increment to blessedness”)

#### Derived terms

* aureolate
* aureoled
* aureole hat
* inaureole

#### Related terms

* aureolin
* oriole

#### Translations
### Verb

aureole (third-person singular simple present aureoles, present participle aureoling, simple past and past participle aureoled)
* (transitive) To surround with, or as if with, a halo.

### References

* “aureole”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
* "aureole" in the Wordsmyth Dictionary-Thesaurus (Wordsmyth, 2002)
* "aureole" in Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
* “aureole”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
* Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)
* Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary (1987-1996)

## Italian
### Noun

aureole f
* plural of aureola

## Latin
### Adjective

aureole
* vocative masculine singular of aureolus

## Portuguese
### Verb

aureole
* inflection of aureolar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Spanish
### Verb

aureole
* inflection of aureolar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative