auris

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Pronunciation

Adjective

auris

  1. masculine plural of auri

Noun

auris

  1. plural of auri

Latin

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *auzis, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓws. Cognate with Old English ēare (English ear), Ancient Greek οὖς (oûs), Old Church Slavonic оухо (uxo) (Russian ухо (uxo), Serbo-Croatian uho), Old Irish au, Lithuanian ausìs, and Albanian vesh.

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Pronunciation

Noun

auris f (genitive auris); third declension

  1. ear
    • 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations:
      Quam diu quisquam erit qui te defendere audeat, vives, et vives ita ut nunc vivis, multis meis et firmis praesidiis obsessus ne commovere te contra rem publicam possis. Multorum te etiam oculi et aures non sentientem, sicut adhuc fecerunt, speculabuntur atque custodient.
      As long as one person exists who may dare to defend you, you shall live, but you shall live as you do now, surrounded by my many and trusty guards, so that you shall not be able to stir one finger against the republic: many eyes and ears shall still observe and watch you, as they have hitherto done, though you shall not perceive them.
Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative auris aurēs
Genitive auris aurium
Dative aurī auribus
Accusative aurem aurēs
aurīs
Ablative aure auribus
Vocative auris aurēs
Derived terms
Descendants
  • English: aur-

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

Noun

aurīs

  1. dative/ablative plural of aura

References

  • auris”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • auris”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • auris 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)
  • auris in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • I am losing my eyesight and getting deaf: neque auribus neque oculis satis consto
    • to be blind: oculis captum esse (vid. sect. IV. 6., note auribus, oculis...)
    • (ambiguous) to turn a deaf ear to, to open one's ears to..: aures claudere, patefacere (e.g. veritati, assentatoribus)
    • (ambiguous) to listen to a person: aures praebere alicui
    • (ambiguous) to din a thing into a person's ears: aures alicuius obtundere or simply obtundere (aliquem)
    • (ambiguous) to whisper something in a person's ears: in aurem alicui dicere (insusurrare) aliquid
    • (ambiguous) to come to some one's ears: ad aures alicuius (not alicui) pervenire, accidere
    • (ambiguous) to prick up one's ears: aures erigere
    • (ambiguous) his words find an easy hearing, are listened to with pleasure: oratio in aures influit
    • (ambiguous) a fine, practised ear: aures elegantes, teretes, tritae (De Or. 9. 27)
    • (ambiguous) to turn one's eyes (ears, attention) towards an object: oculos (aures, animum) advertere ad aliquid