aire - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (2024)

aire (countable and uncountable, plural aires)

1. Obsolete spelling of air.

• Arie, arie

From Latin aēr, āeris.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaiɾe/, [ˈai̯.ɾe]

airem (plural aires)

1. air

From Spanish aire.

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• IPA^(key): /ai̯ɾe/, [ai̯.ɾe̞]

aireinan

1. air (mixture of gasses)

• “aire”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia
• “aire”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

Inherited from Latin āēr.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈaj.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈaj.ɾe]

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airem (plural aires)

1. air (mixture of gases)
2. wind, breeze
3. air (manner)

   Té un aire de salut ― It looks healthy.

4. (equestrianism) gait
5. (music) air, tune

• aeri

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

• IPA^(key): /ɛʁ/

• une aire:

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• hom*ophones: air, airent, aires, airs, ère, ères, erre, errent, erres, ers (general), haire, haires, hère, hères, r (aspirated)

Inherited from Old French aire, eire, from Latin ārea. Doublet of are and area, which were learned borrowings.

airef (plural aires)

1. (geometry) (surface) area

   Synonym: superficie

2. (architecture) a flat surface
3. (sailing) direction of the wind
4. threshing floor
5. area, zone, range (a space in which a certain thing occurs)

• aire d’autoroute
• aire de Broca
• aire de distribution
• aire de lancement
• aire de répartition
• aire de repos
• aire de Wernicke
• aire urbaine
• aire de jeux

• airial
• are

Probably from Latin ager, agrum (and hence a doublet of ager, a later borrowing), or related to the above. Compare Old Occitan agre (“bird's nest”).

airef (plural aires)

1. eyrie, aerie

aire

1. inflection of airer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular present imperative

• “aire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• raie

• ar

From Old Galician-Portuguese aire (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin aēr, aeris.

• IPA^(key): /ˈajɾe̝/

airem (plural aires)

1. air

   • c. 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 108:

     Et algũu mouro astroso, que sabe fazer estas cousas, fezo aquela uisom vijr pelo aere por nos espantar cõ esta arteria.

     And some despicable Moor, who knows how to do this things, made this vision that came by the air, to scare us with this trick

2. evil eye

• “aire”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “aire”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “aire”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “aire”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “aire”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /ˈaɾʲə/^[1], /ˈɑɾʲə/^[2]
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈæːɾʲə/, /ˈaːɾʲə/, /ˈɑːɾʲə/^[3]
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈæɾʲə/^[4]

From Old Irish airef (“guarding, watching over”)^[5]

airef (genitive singular aire)

1. care, attention
2. heed, notice

• aireach (“careful”)

From Old Irish aire,^[6] from Proto-Celtic *aryos, of disputed origin (see Old Irish entry for more).

airem (genitive singular aireach, nominative plural aireacha)

2. (literary) nobleman, chief, freeman

• bó-aire

airem (genitive singular aire, nominative plural airí)

1. (government) minister

• aireachtf (“ministry”)
• binse na nAirí (“the front bench”)

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “aire”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 16
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “aire”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

From a +‎ ire.

• IPA^(key): /aˈi.re/
• Rhymes: -ire
• Hyphenation: a‧ì‧re

airem (uncountable) (literary)

1. impulse, start (of a motion)

   Synonyms: (literary) abbrivo, avvio, rincorsa, slancio, spinta

   dare l'aire a qualcosa ― to put something into motion (literally, “to give the start to something”)

   prendere l'aire ― to start moving (literally, “to take the start”)

Variant of aere.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaj.re/
• Rhymes: -ajre
• Hyphenation: ài‧re

airem (plural airi)

1. (archaic) Alternative form of aere

• -arie, -erai, -eria, -iera, aeri, arie, raie

From Latin āēr.

airem (Latin spelling)

1. air, wind

   Synonym: airi (Monastir)

• ayre, eire, eyre, aere

From Old French air,aer, from Latin āēr, from Ancient Greek ἀήρ (aḗr).

• IPA^(key): /æi̯r/

aire (plural aires)

1. air

• English: air
• Scots: air
• Yola: aare

• “air, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

• àira (Guardiol)

From Latin āēr.

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airem (plural aires)

1. air (mixture of gases)

Variant of air.

aire oblique singular,m (oblique plural aires, nominative singular aires, nominative plural aire)

1. appearance; semblance

• debonaire
• deputaire

From Latin acer.

airem (oblique and nominative feminine singular aire)

1. Alternative form of aigre

• “aigre” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Originally a io-stem (as shown by the dative plural form airib and the personal name Lóegaire (literally “favorite nobleman”) with vocative and genitive Lóegairi), later reanalyzed as a k-stem due to conflation with the synonymous airech. From Proto-Celtic *aryos (compare Gaulish personal names with Ario-, such as Ario-manus and Ario-vistus), of unknown origin.

• Historically (since the now-defunct derivation of Adolphe Pictet, 1858) speculated to mean "freeman", and furthermore supposed to be related to Indo-Iranian *áryas (via Proto-Indo-European *h₂éryos). This idea was especially popular in the 19th- and early 20th-century context of "Aryan" race and language theory, which posited Aryans as "noble" "freemen" opposed to slave-like दास (dāsa)/Semites. Today, for linguistic reasons, any attempt to find a European cognate for the Indo-Iranian autonym is treated with extreme skepsis. See *áryas for details.
• According to Meid, it is from Proto-Indo-European *pr̥h₃- (“first”) (Sanskrit पूर्व (pūrvá), Ancient Greek πρῶτος (prôtos), Lithuanian pirmas). According to Matasović this is less convincing because there are no traces of the laryngeal in the purported Celtic reflexes: *pr̥h₃yos would have given *ɸrāyos. See ro-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈarʲe/

airem (genitive airech, nominative plural airig)

1. freeman (whether commoner or noble)
2. noble (as distinct from commoner)

• airegdae
• frithaire

• Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 43
• W. Meid (2005), Keltische Personennamen in Pannonien, Archaeolingua, Budapest.
• Mallory, J. P., Adams, D. Q., editors (1997), Encyclopedia of Indo-European culture, London, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, page 213
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “3 aire (‘nobleman, chief’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

• Hyphenation: ai‧re

aire

1. inflection of airar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

aire (plural aires)

1. Alternative form of air (“small quantity”)

• “aire, n.²” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

aire (plural aires)

1. Northern Isles form of air (“beach”)

• “aire, n.⁴” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

From Old Irish airef (“freeman, noble”).

• IPA^(key): /aɾʲə/
• (Lewis) IPA^(key): [aðə]

airef (genitive singular aire)

1. mind

   Tha rudeigin air a h-aire. ― There's something on her mind.

2. attention, heed, notice
3. care, regard

   Thoiribh an aire oiribh! ― Take care of yourselves!

• (attention, regard): suim

• cuir an aire
• fa-near

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• IPA^(key): /ˈaiɾe/ [ˈai̯.ɾe]

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• Rhymes: -aiɾe
• Syllabification: ai‧re

Inherited from Latin āēr, from Ancient Greek ἀήρ (aḗr).

airem (plural aires)

1. air (the substance constituting earth's atmosphere)
2. air (the open space above the ground)
3. air; wind

   Synonym: viento

4. air (a feeling or sense)
5. resemblance (to another person)
6. (usually in the plural) air (pretension; snobbishness)

   darse aires ― to put on airs

7. air (a sense of poise, graciousness, or quality)

• → Basque: aire
• → Tagalog: eyre

aire

1. get out; begone; away!

From zorá (“drunken”), named by a zoologist after the shivering movements by the animal's head.

airem (plural aires)

1. solenodon

   Synonym: almiquí

• Sitzungsberichte: Biologische Wissenschaften und Erdwissenschaften, Volumes 191-192, p. 225

• “aire”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014