era

See also: Appendix:Variations of "era"

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin aera.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) enPR: îr'ə, IPA(key): /ˈɪə̯ɹ.ə/
  • Audio (UK)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪəɹə
  • (US) enPR: ĕr'ə, IPA(key): /ˈɛɹ.ə/, /ˈɪɹ.ə/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Homophone: error (in non-rhotic accents)
  • Rhymes: -ɛɹə

Noun

era (plural eras)

  1. A time period of indeterminate length, generally more than one year.
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 6, in The China Governess‎:
      Even in an era when individuality in dress is a cult, his clothes were noticeable. He was wearing a hard hat of the low round kind favoured by hunting men, and with it a black duffle-coat lined with white.
    • 2012 January 1, Philip E. Mirowski, “Harms to Health from the Pursuit of Profits”, in American Scientist‎, volume 100, number 1, page 87:
      In an era when political leaders promise deliverance from decline through America’s purported preeminence in scientific research, the news that science is in deep trouble in the United States has been as unwelcome as a diagnosis of leukemia following the loss of health insurance.
  2. (geology) A unit of time, smaller than eons and greater than periods.

Synonyms

  • (time period of indeterminate length): age, epoch, period
  • See also Thesaurus:era

Coordinate terms

Derived terms

  • (geological time unit): Cenozoic era, erathem, Mesozoic era, Paleozoic era

Translations

Anagrams

Asturian

Etymology

From Late Latin aera.

Noun

era f (plural eres)

  1. era (time period)

Synonyms

Basque

Noun

era

  1. manner

Catalan

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Late Latin aera.

Noun

era f (plural eres)

  1. era (time period)
    Synonym: època

Etymology 2

From Old Occitan, inherited from Latin ārea (“open space; threshing floor”). Compare the borrowed doublet àrea.

Noun

era f (plural eres)

  1. Small section of arable land destined for cultivation.

Etymology 3

See etymology on the main entry.

Verb

era

  1. first-person singular imperfect indicative form of ser
  2. third-person singular imperfect indicative form of ser

Further reading

Chuukese

Verb

era

  1. (intransitive) to say

Esperanto

Adjective

era (accusative singular eran, plural eraj, accusative plural erajn)

  1. adjective form of ero (“bit, piece”).

Fala

Verb

era

  1. third-person singular imperfect indicative of sel
    • 2000, Domingo Frades Gaspar, Vamus a falal: Notas pâ coñocel y platical en nosa fala, Editora regional da Extremadura, Theme IV, Chapter 1: Non Diptongación da “E” i a “O” en Nossa Fala:
      Tampocu era normal en o leonés antiguu, según os estudius dos escritus i textus estudiaus, por ejemplu por Menéndez Pidal, quen tamén viñu i estudió o mañegu.
      Neither was it normal in Old Leonese, according to studies of the writings and the texts studied, by Menéndez Pidal for example, who also came and studied Mañego.

Galician

Verb

era

  1. first-person and third-person singular imperfect indicative of ser

Interlingua

Noun

era (plural eras)

  1. era

Italian

Etymology

From Late Latin aera.

Noun

era f (plural ere)

  1. age, epoch, period
  2. (geology) era

Verb

era

  1. imperfect indicative third-person singular form of essere

See also

Anagrams

Latin

Pronunciation

Noun

era f (genitive erae); first declension

  1. mistress (of a house, with respect to the servants)

Inflection

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative era erae
genitive erae erārum
dative erae erīs
accusative eram erās
ablative erā erīs
vocative era erae

Luganda

Conjunction

era

  1. and then (only used for occurrences in chronological order)

See also

References

The Essentials of Luganda, J. D. Chesswas, 4th edition. Oxford University Press: Nairobi. 1967, p. 95.

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Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *aizō.

Noun

ēra f

  1. honour
  2. dignity

Derived terms

  • unera

Descendants

Old High German

FWOTD – 7 April 2014

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *aizō, whence also Old English ār, Old Norse eir.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈeː.ra/

Noun

ēra f

  1. honour
  2. renown
  3. respect

Declension

Descendants

References

  • Henry Frowde, An Old High German Primer
  • Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer with grammar, notes and glossary, Second Edition

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *aizō, whence also Old English ār, Old Norse eir.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɛː.rɑ/

Noun

ēra f

  1. honour
  2. renown
  3. glory

Declension


Old Tupi

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʔɛɾa/, /ˈtɛɾa/

Noun

era

  1. name

Usage notes

  • The stem era could never be used inside a sentence without a prefix. The absolute form tera was used whenever the noun was not possessed.

References

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɛra/

Noun

era f

  1. era

Declension

Portuguese

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

Inflected form of ser (“to be”).

Verb

era

  1. first-person singular imperfect indicative form of ser
  2. third-person singular imperfect indicative form of ser

Etymology 2

From Late Latin aera.

Noun

era f (plural eras)

  1. era (time period of indeterminate length, generally more than one year)
  2. (archaeology) age (period of human prehistory)
  3. (geology) era (unit of time, smaller than aeons and greater than periods)
Synonyms
  • (indeterminately lengthy time period): época
  • (period of human prehistory): idade
Derived terms
  • era antropozóica
  • era cenozóica
  • era cristã
  • era da pedra
  • era da pedra lascada
  • era da pedra polida
  • era digital
  • era do bronze
  • era do ferro
  • era mesozóica
  • era paleozóica
  • era Proterozóica

Rapa Nui

Pronoun

era

  1. that

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [jeˈra]

Verb

era

  1. third-person singular imperfect indicative of fi. he/she was (being)
    el era pierdut
    he was lost
    el era sarcastic
    he was being sarcastic

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin aera.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ěːra/
  • Hyphenation: e‧ra

Noun

éra f (Cyrillic spelling е́ра)

  1. era

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: e‧ra

Etymology 1

see ser

Verb

era

  1. First-person singular (yo) imperfect indicative form of ser.
  2. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperfect indicative form of ser.
  3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) imperfect indicative form of ser.

See also

Etymology 2

From Late Latin aera.

Noun

era f (plural eras)

  1. era
  2. (geology) era

Etymology 3

Inherited from Latin ārea. Compare the borrowed doublet área.

Noun

era f (plural eras)

  1. threshing floor
  2. tipple

Swedish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Norse yðr, yðar, from Proto-Germanic *izwiz.

Pronunciation

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Noun

era c

  1. era

Declension

Declension of era 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative era eran eror erorna
Genitive eras erans erors erornas

Pronoun

era (singular form er)

  1. your, yours (multiple owners of more than one object)
  2. you (only in this use:)
    Era jävla idioter!
    You bloody idiots!
    Era små fan!
    You little bastards!

Declension

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