# area
## English
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ārea.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɛəɹi.ə/
* (US) enPR: ĕʼrē-ə; IPA: /ˈɛɹi.ə/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛəɹi.ə
* Hyphenation: a‧re‧a, ar‧e‧a

### Noun

area (plural areas or areæ)
* (mathematics) A measure of the extent of a surface; it is measured in square units.
** 2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns‎:It is about 4.5 million square kilometers in area and holds the world’s third largest collection of ice after Antarctica and Greenland.
* A particular geographic region.
* Any particular extent of surface, especially an empty or unused extent.
    The photo is a little dark in that area.
* The extent, scope, or range of an object or concept.
    The plans are a bit vague in that area.
** 2013 September-October, Rob Dorit, “Making Life from Scratch”, in American Scientist:Today, a new area of research that similarly aims to mimic a complex biological phenomenon—life itself—is taking off. Synthetic biology, a seductive experimental subfield in the life sciences, seems tantalizingly to promise custom-designed life created in the laboratory.
* (British) An open space, below ground level, giving access to the basement of a house, and typically separated from the pavement by railings. [from 18th c.]
** 1790, Helen Maria Williams, Julia, Routledge, published 2016, page 95:A boy seized it, whom she bribed with a shilling to relinquish his prize, which she was taking home, when it escaped from her hand, and fell down the area of a house.
** 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 4, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:This was so favourably received by the milkman and beadle that he would immediately have been pushed into the area if I had not held his pinafore while Richard and Mr. Guppy ran down through the kitchen to catch him when he should be released.
** 1865, Anthony Trollope, “LXVI. Lady Monk's Plan”, in Can You Forgive Her?‎:He crept down the back stairs; but as he could not quite condescend to escape through the area, he was forced to emerge upon the hall, and here his aunt pounced upon him, coming out of the breakfast-parlour.
** 1908, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans:A minute later we were both in the area. Hardly had we reached the dark shadows before the step of the policeman was heard in the fog above. As its soft rhythm died away, Holmes set to work upon the lower door. I saw him stoop and strain until with a sharp crash it flew open. We sprang through into the dark passage, closing the area door behind us.
* (soccer) Penalty box; penalty area.
** 2010 December 29, Mark Vesty, “Wigan 2-2 Arsenal”, in BBC:Bendtner's goal-bound shot was well saved by goalkeeper Ali Al Habsi but fell to Arsahvin on the edge of the area and the Russian swivelled, shaped his body and angled a sumptuous volley into the corner.
* (slang) Genitals.
** 2003 October 2, “The One Where Ross Is Fine”, in Friends, season 10, episode 2, spoken by Frank Buffay Jr. (Giovanni Ribisi), via NBC:But what do I do when the third one runs at me with his bike helmet on? I got no more hands to protect my area!

#### Derived terms

* anti-access area denial
* Area 51
* area boy
* area code
* area control center
* area control centre
* area-denial
* area denial
* area meeting
* area of influence
* area of occupancy
* area rug
* area rule
* area sneak
* area studies
* areaway
* areawide
* areawise
* areic
* Broca's area
* Brodmann area
* catchment area
* census area
* coarea
* combined statistical area
* common area
* council area
* danger area
* debris response area
* denied area
* disaster area
* drainage area
* equal-area
* euro area
* free-trade area
* free trade area
* Gauss's area formula
* goal area
* gray area
* grey area
* high memory area
* impact area
* important bird area
* interarea
* intimate area
* language area
* lateral area
* local area network
* low post area
* macroarea
* metropolitan area
* metropolitan area network
* microarea
* multiarea
* neutral area
* notification area
* output area
* outside gross area
* penalty area
* personal area network
* Planck area
* planning area
* polar area diagram
* private area
* prohibited area
* protected area
* rest area
* restricted area
* Ruhr Area
* sacrifice area
* safe area
* Schengen Area
* sea area
* second moment of area
* service area
* sitting-out area
* six-yard area
* special area
* specific leaf area
* staging area
* subarea
* supplementary motor area
* surface area
* tactical assembly area
* technical area
* terminal control area
* Terminal High Altitude Area Defense
* tourist area
* traffic conference area
* training area
* type area
* upper memory area
* ventral tegmental area
* waiting area
* Wernicke's area
* wetted area
* wide area network
* wide-area network

#### Related terms

* areal

#### Translations

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### See also

* Imperial: square inches, square feet, square yards, square miles, acres
* Metric: square meters/square metres, square centimeters/square centimetres, square kilometers/square kilometres, hectares

### Anagrams

* Aare, æra

## Afrikaans
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

area (plural areas)
* area

#### Derived terms

* leerarea

## Galician
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese arẽa, from Latin arēnā (“sand”). Cognate with Portuguese areia and Spanish arena.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aˈɾea̝/

### Noun

area f (plural areas)
* sand (a grain)
* (figuratively) a grain of salt
* sand (collectively)
    Synonyms: xabre, saibro
* (dated) beach, cove
    Synonyms: areal, praia, arnela

#### Derived terms

* Area
* Area Longa
* Areado
* areal
* Areal
* areallo
* areazo
* areego
* areeiro
* Areeiro
* areento
* Arenal
* Areosa
* arisco
* Arneiro
* arnela
* Arnela
* Arnosa
* Arnoso

### See also

* área

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “area”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “area”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “area”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “area”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “area”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Indonesian
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ārea.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈarɛa]
* Hyphenation: arèa

### Noun

arèa (uncountable)
* area:
** a particular geographic region.
    Synonym: daerah
** any particular extent of surface, especially an empty or unused extent.
    Synonym: kawasan

#### Derived terms

* area akting
* area atas panggung
* area berjalan aktor
* area bersinyal
* area Broca
* area kerja normal
* area lampu akting
* area panggung
* area pasif
* area pemilahan
* area pencahayaan
* area publik
* area rehat
* area umum

#### Related terms

* are
* area
* hektare

### Further reading

* “area” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Italian
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ārea. Doublet of aia (“threshing floor”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈa.re.a/
* Rhymes: -area
* Hyphenation: à‧re‧a

### Noun

area f (plural aree)
* area, surface
* land, ground
* field, sector

#### Related terms

* areale

### Anagrams

* aera

## Latin
### Etymology

Of disputed etymology:
* Either from Proto-Italic *āzeā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eHs-e-yeh₂, from *h₂eHs- (“to burn”) (whence āreō, ārā),
* Or from Proto-Italic *āreā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eh₂r-e-yeh₂, from *h₂eh₂rh₃- (“threshing tool”) (cognate with Hittite [script needed] (ḫaḫḫar, “rake, threshing tool”)), resultative reduplicated noun from verb *h₂erh₃- (“to plough”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈaː.re.a/, [ˈäːreä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈa.re.a/, [ˈäːreä]

### Noun

ārea f (genitive āreae); first declension
* a piece of level ground, a vacant place (esp. in the town)
* ground for a house, a building-spot
* (figuratively) a vacant space around or in a house, a court
* (figuratively) an open space for games, an open play-ground
* (figuratively) a threshing floor
* (figuratively) the halo around the sun or moon
* (figuratively) a bed or border in a garden
* (figuratively) a fowling-floor
* (figuratively) a burying-ground, church-yard
* (figuratively) a bald spot upon the head, baldness

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* ārealis
* āreola

#### Descendants

* Aragonese: era
* Aromanian: aryi
* Asturian: era, yera
* Italian: aia
* Ladin: aa
* Old French: aire, eire
** French: aire
* Old Galician-Portuguese: eira
** Galician: eira
** Portuguese: eira
* Old Occitan:
** Catalan: era
** Occitan: ièra
* Piedmontese: ajra
* Romanian: arie
* Spanish: era
* Venetan: ara, era
Borrowings:
* → Catalan: àrea
* → English: area
* → French: are, area
** Norwegian Bokmål: ar
* → Friulian: aree
* → Italian: area
* → Portuguese: área
* → Spanish: área

### Further reading

* “area”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “area”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* "area", 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)
* area in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* “area”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “area”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 53
* ↑ Cohen, Paul S. (2014) “Some Hittite and Armenian Reduplications and Their (P)IE Ramifications”, in Indo-European Linguistics

### Anagrams

* aera

## Papiamentu
### Etymology

From Spanish área

### Noun

area
* area

## Portuguese
### Noun

area f (plural areas)
* Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of área.

## Swedish
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ārea (literally “vacant piece of level ground”).

### Noun

area c
* (geometry) area; a measure of squared distance