# aire
## English
### Noun

aire (countable and uncountable, plural aires)
* Obsolete spelling of air.

#### Derived terms

* rockaire

### Anagrams

* Arie, arie

## Aragonese
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin āēr.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈai̯ɾe/
* Rhymes: -ai̯ɾe
* Syllabification: ai‧re

### Noun

aire m
* air (mixture of gases)
* wind, breeze
* air (manner)
    Tien un aire de persona que faría ixo ― It looks like a person who would do that.
* (equestrianism) gait
* (music) air, tune

### Interjection

aire
* Encouraging to start a movement, just like let's go
    Synonyms: au, va, tira

#### Related terms

* aerio

## Asturian
### Etymology

From Latin aēr, āeris.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈai̯ɾe/ [ˈai̯.ɾe]

### Noun

aire m (plural aires)
* air

## Basque
### Etymology

From Spanish aire.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* IPA: /ai̯ɾe/, [ai̯.ɾe̞]

### Noun

aire inan
* air (mixture of gasses)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “aire”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
* “aire”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

## Catalan
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin āēr.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈaj.ɾə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈaj.ɾe]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

aire m (plural aires)
* air (mixture of gases)
* wind, breeze
* air (manner)
    Té un aire de salut ― It looks healthy.
* (equestrianism) gait
* (music) air, tune

#### Derived terms

* a l'aire lliure
* aire comprimit
* cop d'aire
* enlaire

#### Related terms

* aeri

### Further reading

* “aire” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “aire”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “aire” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “aire” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɛʁ/
* une aire:(file)
* Homophones: air, airent, aires, airs, ère, ères, erre, errent, erres, ers (general), haire, haires, hère, hères, r (aspirated)

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old French aire, eire, from Latin ārea. Doublet of are and area, which were learned borrowings.

#### Noun

aire f (plural aires)
* (geometry) (surface) area
    Synonym: superficie
* (architecture) a flat surface
* (sailing) direction of the wind
* threshing floor
* area, zone, range (a space in which a certain thing occurs)

##### Derived terms

* aire d’autoroute
* aire de Broca
* aire de distribution
* aire de lancement
* aire de répartition
* aire de repos
* aire de Wernicke
* aire urbaine
* aire de jeux

##### Related terms

* airial
* are

### Etymology 2

Probably from Latin ager, agrum (and hence a doublet of ager, a later borrowing), or related to the above. Compare Old Occitan agre (“bird's nest”).

#### Noun

aire f (plural aires)
* eyrie, aerie

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

aire
* inflection of airer:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular present imperative

### Further reading

* “aire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* raie

## Galician
### Alternative forms

* ar

### Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese aire (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin aēr, aeris.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈajɾe/ [ˈa̠j.ɾɪ]
* Rhymes: -ajɾe
* Hyphenation: /ai‧re

### Noun

aire m (plural aires)
* air
** c. 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 108:Et algũu mouro astroso, que sabe fazer estas cousas, fezo aquela uisom vijr pelo aere por nos espantar cõ esta arteria.And some despicable Moor, who knows how to do this things, made this vision that came by the air, to scare us with this trick
* evil eye
    Synonyms: mal de ollo, ollada

#### Derived terms

* aire acondicionado
* aire comprimido
* airear
* airoso
* ao aire
* ao aire libre
* cambiar de aires
* colchón de aire
* mudar de aires

### References

* “aire”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “aire”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “aire”, 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), “aire”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “aire”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Irish
### Pronunciation

* (Munster) IPA: /ˈaɾʲə/, /ˈɑɾʲə/
* (Connacht) IPA: /ˈæːɾʲə/, /ˈaːɾʲə/, /ˈɑːɾʲə/
* (Ulster) IPA: /ˈæɾʲə/

### Etymology 1

From Old Irish aire f (“guarding, watching over”)

#### Noun

aire f (genitive singular aire)
* care, attention
* heed, notice

##### Declension

bare forms
singular
nominative
aire
vocative
a aire
genitive
aire
dative
aire
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative
an aire
genitive
na haire
dative
leis an aire don aire :

##### Derived terms

* aireach (“careful”)

### Etymology 2

From Old Irish aire, from Proto-Celtic *aryos, of disputed origin (see Old Irish entry for more).

#### Noun

aire m (genitive singular aireach, nominative plural aireacha)
* (literary) nobleman, chief, freeman

##### Declension

bare forms
singular
plural
nominative
aire
aireacha
vocative
a aire
a aireacha
genitive
aireach
aireacha
dative
aire airigh (archaic, dialectal)
aireacha
forms with the definite article
singular
plural
nominative
an t-aire
na haireacha
genitive
an aireach
na n-aireacha
dative
leis an aire leis an airigh (archaic, dialectal) don aire don airigh (archaic, dialectal)
leis na haireacha :

##### Derived terms

* bó-aire

#### Noun

aire m (genitive singular aire, nominative plural airí)
* (government) minister

##### Declension

bare forms
singular
plural
nominative
aire
airí
vocative
a aire
a airí
genitive
aire
airí
dative
aire
airí
forms with the definite article
singular
plural
nominative
an t-aire
na hairí
genitive
an aire
na n-airí
dative
leis an aire don aire
leis na hairí :

##### Derived terms

* aireacht f (“ministry”)
* binse na nAirí (“the front bench”)

### Mutation

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

### References

* ↑ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 86, page 46
* ↑ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 187, page 93
* ↑ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 26
* ↑ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 75, page 32
* ↑ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 aire (‘act of guarding, watching over’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
* ↑ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “3 aire (‘nobleman, chief’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

### Further reading

* Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “aire”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 16
* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “aire”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

## Italian
### Etymology 1

From a +‎ ire.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aˈi.re/
* Rhymes: -ire
* Hyphenation: a‧ì‧re

#### Noun

aire m (uncountable) (literary)
* impulse, start (of a motion)
    Synonyms: (literary) abbrivo, avvio, rincorsa, slancio, spinta
    dare l'aire a qualcosa ― to put something into motion (literally, “to give the start to something”)
    prendere l'aire ― to start moving (literally, “to take the start”)

### Etymology 2

Variant of aere.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈaj.re/
* Rhymes: -ajre
* Hyphenation: ài‧re

#### Noun

aire m (plural airi)
* (archaic) Alternative form of aere

### Anagrams

* -arie, -erai, -eria, -iera, aeri, arie, raie

## Ladino
### Alternative forms

* airi (Monastir), ayre

### Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish aire, ayre, from Latin āēr, from Ancient Greek ἀήρ (aḗr).

### Noun

aire m (Hebrew spelling איירי)
* air (wind)
** 1940, La boz de Türkiye‎, numbers 11–34, page 277:Por las calles, circulan algunas mujeres livianamente vestidas, curbadas por al frio, allas van bujcar de cualo meter un pedaso de pan bajo sue dientes o algun poco de carvon para callentar sus criaturas dejadas en casa onde el aire, la luvia, y la nieve entran de todas las partas.Some conveniently dressed women circulate through the streets, crooked from the cold; they go seeking some way to put a piece of bread between their teeth, or a little bit of coal to warm their babies left at home where the wind, rain, and snow get everywhere.
* (music) melody; tune
* appearance; similarity

### References

* ↑ “aire”, in Trezoro de la Lengua Djudeoespanyola.

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* ayre, eire, eyre, aere

### Etymology

From Old French air,aer, from Latin āēr, from Ancient Greek ἀήρ (aḗr).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /æi̯r/

### Noun

aire (plural aires)
* air

#### Descendants

* English: air
* Scots: air
* Yola: aare

#### References

* “air, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

## Occitan
### Alternative forms

* àira (Guardiol)

### Etymology

From Latin āēr.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

aire m (plural aires)
* air (mixture of gases)

## Old French
### Etymology 1

Variant of air.

#### Noun

aire oblique singular, m (oblique plural aires, nominative singular aires, nominative plural aire)
* appearance; semblance

##### Derived terms

* debonaire
* deputaire

### Etymology 2
#### Adjective

aire m (oblique and nominative feminine singular aire)
* Alternative form of aigre

### References

* “aigre” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

## Old Galician-Portuguese
### Alternative forms

* aar, aer, aere, ayre, ayro, eer

### Etymology

Inherited from Latin āēr, from Ancient Greek ἀήρ (aḗr). Cognate with Old Spanish ayre.

### Noun

aire m
* air (wind)

#### Descendants

* Fala: airi
* Galician: aire, ar
* Portuguese: ar

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “aire”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

## Old Irish
### Etymology

Originally a io-stem (as shown by the dative plural form airib and the personal name Lóegaire (literally “favorite nobleman”) with vocative and genitive Lóegairi), later reanalyzed as a k-stem due to conflation with the synonymous airech. From Proto-Celtic *aryos (compare Gaulish personal names with Ario-, such as Ario-manus and Ario-vistus), of unknown origin.
* Historically (since the now-defunct derivation of Adolphe Pictet, 1858) speculated to mean "freeman", and furthermore supposed to be related to Indo-Iranian *áryas (via Proto-Indo-European *h₂éryos). This idea was especially popular in the 19th- and early 20th-century context of "Aryan" race and language theory, which posited Aryans as "noble" "freemen" opposed to slave-like दास (dāsa)/Semites. Today, for linguistic reasons, any attempt to find a European cognate for the Indo-Iranian autonym is treated with extreme skepsis. See *áryas for details.
* According to Meid, it is from Proto-Indo-European *pr̥h₃- (“first”) (Sanskrit पूर्व (pūrvá), Ancient Greek πρῶτος (prôtos), Lithuanian pirmas). According to Matasović this is less convincing because there are no traces of the laryngeal in the purported Celtic reflexes: *pr̥h₃yos would have given *ɸrāyos. See ro-.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈarʲe/

### Noun

aire m (genitive airech, nominative plural airig)
* freeman (whether commoner or noble)
* noble (as distinct from commoner)

#### Declension

* $^H$ = triggers aspiration
* $^L$ = triggers lenition
* $^N$ = triggers nasalization

#### Derived terms

* airegdae
* frithaire

### Mutation

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

### References

* Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 43
* W. Meid (2005), Keltische Personennamen in Pannonien, Archaeolingua, Budapest.
* Mallory, J. P., Adams, D. Q., editors (1997), Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture, London, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, page 213
* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “3 aire (‘nobleman, chief’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

## Old Spanish
### Noun

aire m (plural aires)
* Alternative spelling of ayre

### References

* Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946) “aire”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume I, Chapel Hill, page 20

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: ai‧re

### Verb

aire
* inflection of airar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Scots
### Etymology 1
#### Noun

aire (plural aires)
* Alternative form of air (“small quantity”)

#### References

* “aire, n.$^2$”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

aire (plural aires)
* Northern Isles form of air (“beach”)

#### References

* “aire, n.$^4$”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

## Scottish Gaelic
### Etymology

From Old Irish aire f (“freeman, noble”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aɾʲə/
* (Lewis) IPA: [aðə]

### Noun

aire f (genitive singular aire)
* mind
    Tha rudeigin air a h-aire. ― There's something on her mind.
* attention, heed, notice
* care, regard
    Thoiribh an aire oiribh! ― Take care of yourselves!

#### Synonyms

* (attention, regard): suim

#### Derived terms

* cuir an aire
* fa-near

### Mutation

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

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈaiɾe/ [ˈai̯.ɾe]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -aiɾe
* Syllabification: ai‧re

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Spanish aire, ayre, from Latin āēr, from Ancient Greek ἀήρ (aḗr).

#### Noun

aire m (plural aires)
* air (the substance constituting earth's atmosphere)
* air (the open space above the ground)
* air; wind
    Synonym: viento
* air (a feeling or sense)
* resemblance (to another person)
* (usually in the plural) air (pretension; snobbishness)
    darse aires ― to put on airs
* air (a sense of poise, graciousness, or quality)
* (Latin America) A type of muscle pain.
** 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 306:El azufre entero tiene la propiedad de «sacar el aire», nombre vulgar de los dolores neurálgicos, especialmente los de la cara. Se usa en estos casos aplicando un pedazo de azufre sobre la parte enferma. Al cabo de algunos momentos, unos crujimientos se dejan oir en el interior del azufre: es el aire extraído por éste, que sale.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
** 2024 November 17, @IvanRiquelme22, Twitter‎:Creo que tengo aire en la espalda lpm como necesito masajes 🙏(please add an English translation of this quotation)

##### Derived terms

* a su aire
* acondicionador de aire
* aire acondicionado
* aire comprimido
* aire de agua
* aire de suficiencia
* aire de taco
* aire fresco
* aire libre
* airear
* airecillo
* airecito
* airoso
* al aire
* al aire libre
* alimentarse del aire
* azotar el aire
* bolsa de aire
* bomba de aire
* Buenos Aires
* cámara de aire
* cambiar de aires
* castillos en el aire
* cojín de aire
* colchón de aire
* compresor de aire
* con el culo al aire
* de buen aire
* de mal aire
* de puro aire
* de una ire
* disparar al aire
* en el aire
* filtro de aire (“air filter”)
* freidora de aire
* general del Aire
* golpe de aire
* hoja del aire
* madera del aire
* mudar aires
* ofenderse del aire
* palabras al aire
* pelo de aire
* pistola de aire
* red del aire
* rifle de aire
* sustentarse del aire
* tomar aire
* tomar el aire
* viga de aire
* vivir del aire

##### Related terms

* aéreo
* neumático

##### Descendants

* → Basque: aire
* → Bikol Central: ayre
* → Tagalog: ere

#### Interjection

aire
* get out; begone; away!

### Etymology 2

From zorá (“drunken”), named by a zoologist after the shivering movements by the animal's head.

#### Noun

aire m (plural aires)
* solenodon
    Synonym: almiquí

### References

* Sitzungsberichte: Biologische Wissenschaften und Erdwissenschaften, Volumes 191-192, p. 225

### Further reading

* “aire”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10