era

• æra (archaic)

Borrowed from Late Latin aera.

• (UK) enPR: îʹrə; IPA^(key): /ˈɪə.ɹə/,

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  • Rhymes: -ɪəɹə
• (US) enPR: ĕrʹə, îrʹə; IPA^(key): /ˈɛɹ.ə/, /ˈɪɚ.ə/

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  • Homophone: error (non-rhotic)
  • Rhymes: -ɛɹə

era (plural eras)

1. A time period of indeterminate length, generally more than one year.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 6, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

     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, Philip E. Mirowski, “Harms to Health from the Pursuit of Profits”, in American Scientist‎, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 4 April 2012, 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 geochronologic unit of tens to hundreds of millions of years; a subdivision of an eon, and subdivided into periods.
3. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (Internet slang) A person's current interests

   I'm in my fitness era.

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

• (cosmological time unit): stelliferous era, degenerate era, black hole era
• (geochronologic unit): Cenozoic era, erathem, Mesozoic era, Paleozoic era

• (geological time units) supereon, aeon/eon, era, period, epoch, age/sub-epoch

• era on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• 'ear, Åre, ear, Rea, rea, EAR, REA, aer-, A.R.E., ReA, ARE, aër-, Are, Aer, are, Rae

From Late Latin aera.

era f (plural eres)

1. era (time period)

• época

Borrowed from Russian э́ра (éra), ultimately from Late Latin aera.

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era (definite accusative eranı, plural eralar)

1. era

   yeni eraya qədəm qoymaq ― to enter a new era

   eramızdan əvvəl ― before the common era

• “era” in Obastan.com.

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era inan

1. manner

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)
• Rhymes: -eɾa

Borrowed from Late Latin aera.

era f (plural eres)

1. era (time period)

   Synonym: època

Inherited from Latin ārea (“open space; threshing floor”). Compare the borrowed doublet àrea.

era f (plural eres)

1. small section of arable land destined for cultivation

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

era

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

• “era” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “era”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “era” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “era” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

era

1. (intransitive) to say

• ereni

• (Oklahoma) IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: e‧ra

era

1. his/her back

• J. B. Martin, M. McKane Mauldrin (2004) A dictionary of Creek/Muscogee, University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 31
• J. B. Martin (2011) A grammar of Creek (Muscogee), University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 134

Borrowed from Latin aera.

• IPA^(key): /ˈeː.raː/

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• Hyphenation: era
• Rhymes: -eːraː

era f (plural era's)

1. era, age, epoch

   Synonyms: eeuw, tijdperk

2. (dated) era, calendar

   Synonym: jaartelling

• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -era
• Hyphenation: er‧a

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

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

era

1. first-person singular imperfect indicative of sel (“to be”)
2. third-person singular imperfect indicative of sel (“to be”)
   • 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.

era

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

era (plural eras)

1. era

era

1. optional irregular past tense form of esser ("to be")

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛ.ra/
• Rhymes: -ɛra
• Hyphenation: è‧ra

Borrowed from Late Latin aera.

era f (plural ere)

1. age, epoch, period

   Synonyms: epoca, età

2. (geology) era

Inherited from Latin erat.

era

1. third-person singular imperfect indicative of essere

From Latin eram.

era

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of ero, first-person singular imperfect indicative of essere
   • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell]‎, lines 10–12; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎, 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     Io non so ben ridir com’i’ v’intrai, ¶ tant’era pien di sonno a quel punto ¶ che la verace via abbandonai.

     I cannot well repeat how there I entered, ⁠¶ ⁠So full was I of slumber at the moment ¶ ⁠In which I had abandoned the true way.

• -are, Rea, are, rea

era (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling אירה)

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

• hera

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈe.ra/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈe.ra/,

era f (genitive erae, masculine erus); first declension

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

First-declension noun.

era

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

• ne

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛ.ɾɐ/

era

1. first/third-person singular imperfect of ser

era

1. (archaic or dialectal) plural present of vera

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era f

1. feminine singular of eth

era

1. (Gascony) she

From Proto-West Germanic *aiʀu, from Proto-Germanic *aizō.

ēra f

1. honour
2. dignity

• unēra

• Middle Dutch: êre
  • Dutch: eer
    • Afrikaans: eer
    • Negerhollands: eer
  • Limburgish: ieër

• “ēra”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

era

1. imperative singular of erian

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈeː.ra/

ēra f

1. honour
2. renown
3. respect

• German: Ehre

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛː.rɑ/

ēra f

1. honour
2. renown
3. glory

• Middle Low German: ēre
  • → Old Norse: æra
    • Danish: ære
    • Icelandic: æra
    • Faroese: æra
    • Norwegian Nynorsk: ære
    • Norwegian Bokmål: ære
    • Swedish: ära

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *teT, from Proto-Tupian *jeT.^[1]

Cognate with Guaraní téra.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛ.ɾa/
• Rhymes: -ɛɾa
• Hyphenation: e‧ra

era (possessable, IIa class pluriform, absolute tera, R1 rera, R2 sera)

1. name

• Nheengatu: era
• →⇒ Portuguese: xará

• Antônio Lemos Barbosa (1956) Curso de tupi antigo: gramática, exercícios, textos [Course of Old Tupi: Grammar, Exercises, Texts]‎ (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Livraria São José
• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “era”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 109, column 1

Internationalism; compare English era, French ère, German Ära, ultimately from Late Latin aera.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛ.ra/

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• Rhymes: -ɛra
• Syllabification: e‧ra

era f

1. era

• era in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• era in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• Rhymes: -ɛɾɐ
• Homophones: hera, Hera
• Hyphenation: e‧ra

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Borrowed from Late Latin aera.

era f (plural eras)

1. era (time period of indeterminate length, generally more than one year)

   Synonym: época

2. (archaeology) age (period of human prehistory)

   Synonym: idade

3. (geology) era (unit of time, smaller than aeons and greater than periods)

era

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

From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *e-la. Cognates include Tuamotuan era and Maori ērā.

• IPA^(key): /ˈe.ɾa/
• Hyphenation: e‧ra

era

1. that

   Te vaka era. ― That canoe.

• Veronica Du Feu (1996) Rapanui (Descriptive Grammars), Routledge, →ISBN, page 145
• Paulus Kieviet (2017) A grammar of Rapa Nui‎, Berlin: Language Science Press, →ISBN, page 194

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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

• IPA^(key):

era f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of eră

-êra (infinitive kwêra, perfective -êze)

1. be white
2. be pure, be innocent
3. be holy
4. be ripe

• icyumweru / icumweru (“week”)
• umwera (“white person”)
• umweru (“something white”)

Borrowed from Late Latin aera.

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

éra f (Cyrillic spelling е́ра)

1. era

• IPA^(key): /ˈeɾa/

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• Rhymes: -eɾa
• Syllabification: e‧ra

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

era

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

• estaba

Borrowed from Late Latin aera.

era f (plural eras)

1. era, age

   la Nueva Era ― New Age

2. (geology) era

Inherited from Latin ārea. Compare the borrowed doublet área.

era f (plural eras)

1. threshing floor
2. tipple

• “era”, 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

• IPA^(key): /eːra/

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• Hyphenation: e‧ra

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

• edra (archaic)

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!

From Latin aera.

era c

1. era

• -are, rea

era

1. water

• ira (Weirate and Deirate dialects)

• Duane A. Clouse, 1997, Toward a reconstruction and reclassification of the Lakes Plain languages of Irian Jaya, In Karl J. Franklin (ed.), Papers in Papuan linguistics No. 2, 133-236. Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, page 172