æra

æra (plural æras)

1. Archaic spelling of era.
   • 1798, Pierre Simon La Place, “Exposition du Système du Monde [On the System of the World]”, in The Monthly Review, new and improved‎, →ISBN, page 500:

     It is desirable that all people should adopt one and the same æra, independant of moral revolutions, and founded solely on astronomical phænomena.

   • 1892, Thomas Keightley, Fairy Mythology, London: George Bell and Sons, page 5:

     In the fourth century of our æra we find this word made plural, and even feminine, and used as the equivalent of Parcæ.

• Aare, area

æra c (singular definite æraen, plural indefinite æraer)

1. era

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æra f (genitive singular æru, uncountable)

1. honor (UK, honour)

• "æra" at Sprotin.fo

• IPA^(key): /ˈaiːra/

  Rhymes: -aiːra

æra f (genitive singular æru, nominative plural ærur)

1. reputation, honour

From Old Norse œra.

æra (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative ærði, supine ært)

1. (transitive, governs the accusative) to drive crazy

• ærandi

æra

1. inflection of ær:
   1. masculine accusative plural
   2. feminine accusative singular

From Latin aera.

æra m (definite singular æraen, indefinite plural æraer, definite plural æraene)

1. era

• æren

æra m sg or f sg

1. definite feminine singular of ære

• æret

æra

1. simple past of ære
2. past participle of ære

From Latin aera.

• IPA^(key): /ˈæː.rɑ/

æra m (definite singular æraen, indefinite plural æraer or æraar, definite plural æraene or æraane)

1. an era

   ein æra er forbi ― an era is over

From Old Norse æra (noun and verb).

• IPA^(key): /²æː.rɑ/

æra f (plural æra)

1. definite singular of ære
2. (pre-2012) alternative form of ære

æra (present tense ærar, past tense æra, past participle æra, passive infinitive ærast, present participle ærande, imperative æra/ær)

1. alternative form of ære

From Old Norse æra. In an umlaut relationship with år (“year”).

æra (present tense ærer, past tense ærte, past participle ært, passive infinitive ærast, present participle ærande, imperative ær)

1. alternative form of ære

• IPA^(key): /ˈæː.rɑ/

æra f

1. definite singular of ær

• “æra” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• Æ-ar, æ-ar

Borrowed from Middle Low German ēre, from Old Saxon ēra (“honour, renown, glory”), from Proto-West Germanic *aiʀu (“honour; respect, reverence”), from Proto-Germanic *aizō (“fear, reverence; glory”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂oys-éh₂, from *h₂eys- (“to respect”). Doublet of eir.

æra f (genitive æru)

1. honour

• Danish: ære
• Icelandic: æra
• Faroese: æra
• Norwegian Nynorsk: ære
• Norwegian Bokmål: ære
• Swedish: ära

In an umlaut relationship with ár f (“oar”).

æra

1. (intransitive) to row, pull

   Synonym: róa

In an umlaut relationship with ár n (“year”).

æra

1. (impersonal, transitive with accusative) to give a good crop

   ærir akr ― the field becomes fertile

• Norwegian Nynorsk: æra, ære

• æra in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.

æra

1. third-person plural present indicative of vara