aire

Noun

aire (plural aires)

1. Obsolete spelling of air

Anagrams

• Arie, arie

Etymology

From Latin aēr, aeris.

Noun

aire m (plural aires)

1. air

Noun

aire

1. air (mixture of gases)

Etymology

From Latin āēr.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈaj.ɾə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈaj.ɾe/

Noun

aire m (plural aires)

1. air (mixture of gases)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛʁ/

• une aire

  (file)

• Homophones: air, airent, aires, airs, ère, ères, erre, errent, erres, ers, haire, haires, hère, hères

Etymology 1

From Latin ārea. Doublet of 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”).

Anagrams

• raie

Further reading

• “aire” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Etymology

From Latin aēr, aeris.

Noun

aire m (plural aires)

1. air

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɾʲə/
• (Aran) IPA^(key): /ˈæɾʲə/, /ˈaɾʲə/, /ˈɑːɾʲə/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish aire f (“act of guarding, watching over, tending, caring for; notice, heed, attention”).

Etymology 2

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

Mutation

References

• “1 aire (‘act of guarding, watching over’)” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• “3 aire (‘nobleman, chief’)” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• “aire” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 2nd ed., 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
• Finck, F. N. (1899), Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. II, p. 26.
• "aire" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Etymology 1

From a ire.

Etymology 2

Variant of aere.

Etymology

From Latin āēr.

Noun

aire m (Latin spelling)

1. air, wind

Alternative forms

• (Guardiol) ària

Etymology

From Latin āēr.

Noun

aire m (plural aires)

1. air (mixture of gases)

Noun

aire m (oblique plural aires, nominative singular aires, nominative plural aire)

1. appearance; semblance

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. 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).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈarʲe/

Noun

aire m (genitive airech, nominative plural airig)

1. freeman (whether commoner or noble)
2. noble (as distinct from commoner)

Mutation

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
• “3 aire (‘nobleman, chief’)” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ai‧re

Verb

aire

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of airar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of airar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of airar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of airar

Etymology

From Old Irish aire f (“act of guarding, watching over, tending, caring for; notice, heed, attention”).

Noun

aire f (genitive singular aire)

1. mind

   Tha rudeigin air a h-aire. ― There's something on her mind.

2. attention, heed, notice
3. care, regard

   Thoiribh an aire oiribh! ― Take care of yourselves!

Mutation

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈai.ɾe/
• Hyphenation: ai‧re

Etymology 1

From Latin āēr, from Ancient Greek ἀήρ (aḗr).

Etymology 2