Aura

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Aura (countable and uncountable, plural Auras)

1. A diminutive of the female given name Aurelia, from Latin.
   • 1861 W. W. Fosdick - George R. Poulton, Aura Lea (a song):

     Aura Lea, Aura Lea, / Maid with golden hair;

2. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) A minor female deity.

• (given name): Mainly used in the U.S.A. in the end of the 19th century.

• Aura (mythology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Aaru, Arau

Aura f

1. a female given name

Matronymics

• son of Aura: Auruson
• daughter of Aura: Aurudóttir

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑu̯rɑ/, [ˈɑ̝u̯rɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑurɑ
• Syllabification^(key): Au‧ra
• Hyphenation^(key): Au‧ra

The municipality is named after the river, probably from Old Swedish āþra (thus doublet of Eura).

Aura

1. a municipality of Southwest Finland, near Turku
2. a river in southwestern Finland, flowing through Turku and discharging into the Archipelago Sea
3. synonym of Aurajoki (“The Plough, Big Dipper”)

• (municipality): The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used when referring to a location; for example, "in Aura" is Aurassa.

Possibly from the same origin as the river (Aura, etymology 1) or from aura (“plough/plow”) as an occupational surname.^[1]

Aura

1. a Finnish surname

• Aura is the 1780^th (tied with 3 other surnames) most common surname in Finland, belonging to 482 individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

< aura (“plough, plow”)

Aura

1. (astronomy) synonym of Otava (“The Plough, Big Dipper”)

Shortened from Aurora.

Aura

1. a female given name from Latin
   • 2019, Riikka Pelo, Kaikki elävä, Teos, →ISBN, page 368:

     Muistin nyt hänen nimensä. Aura. Aura. Aura. Elämänvoima. Sädekehä. Valo. Sähkömagneettinen kenttä.

     Then her name came back to me. Aura. Aura. Aura. Life force. Halo. Light. Electromagnetic field.

• Aura is the 377^th most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 1,089 female individuals (and as a middle name to 579 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

• raau, uraa

• IPA^(key): [ˈaʊ̯ʁa]

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Aura f (genitive Aura, plural Auren)

1. aura

• IPA^(key): /ˈaw.ra/
• Rhymes: -awra
• Hyphenation: Àu‧ra

Aura f

1. a female given name