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auro

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See also: Auro and auro-

Interlingua

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Noun

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auro

  1. gold

Italian

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin aurum, from earlier ausum, from Proto-Italic *auzom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éh₂usom (glow), derived from the root *h₂ews-. Doublet of oro.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈaw.ro/
  • Rhymes: -awro
  • Hyphenation: àu‧ro

Noun

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auro m (plural auri)

  1. (literary, archaic) Synonym of oro

Further reading

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  • auro in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From aurum (gold) +‎ .

Verb

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aurō (present infinitive aurāre, perfect active aurāvī, supine aurātum); first conjugation

  1. (transitive) to overlay with gold, gild
Conjugation
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Etymology 2

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Noun

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aurō

  1. dative/ablative singular of aurum

References

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  • auro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • auro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (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