Aurora

Ultimately from Latin Aurōra. The Philippine placenames were named after First Lady Aurora Quezon, the wife of Pres. Manuel Quezon, the 2nd president of the Philippines.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /əˈɹɔɹ.ə/

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• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈɹɔːɹ.ə/
• (Philippines) IPA^(key): /ʔaʊ̯ˈɾo.ɾɐ/

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Aurora

1. (Roman mythology) Roman goddess of the dawn; equivalent of the Greek Eos. Sister of Luna and Sol.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 16:

     As faire Aurora in her purple pall, / Out of the East the dawning day doth call […]

2. A female given name from Latin, in regular use since the 19th century.
   • 1904, George Bernard Shaw, How He Lied to Her Husband:

     How will they know! Why, my name is all over them: my silly, unhappy name. Oh, if I had only been christened Mary Jane, or Gladys, Muriel, or Beatrice, or Francesca, or Guinevere, or something quite common. But Aurora! Aurora! I'm the only Aurora in London; and everybody knows it. I believe I'm the only Aurora in the world. And it's so horribly easy to rhyme to it!

3. (astronomy) 94 Aurora, a main belt asteroid.
4. (naval) the Russian cruiser Aurora, a cruiser of Soviet Navy.
5. (poetic) the dawn
6. A town in Ontario, Canada; named for the goddess.
7. A town in the Western Cape, South Africa; named for the goddess.
8. A town in Suriname.
9. A province of Central Luzon, Luzon, Philippines; named after First Lady Aurora Quezon. Capital: Baler.
10. A suburb of Melbourne, Australia.
11. A historical district of Turin, Italy.
12. A locale in Brazil.
    1. A municipality of Ceará.
    2. A municipality of Santa Catarina.
13. A locale in the Philippines.
    1. A town in Isabela.
    2. A town in Zamboanga del Sur; named after Aurora Quezon.
14. A locale in the United States:
    1. An unincorporated community in Arkansas.
    2. An unincorporated community in California.
    3. A city in Colorado; named for the goddess.
       • 2024 September 11, Caitlin Stephen Hu, Rafael Romo and Belisa Morillo, “How an empty apartment complex in Colorado became a national battleground over immigration”, in CNN‎^[1]:

         “Based on our initial investigative work, we believe reports of TdA influence in Aurora are isolated, police said in an August 28 statement.

    4. A city mainly in DuPage County and Kane County, Illinois, and suburb of Chicago; named for the goddess.
    5. A city in Indiana; named for the goddess.
    6. A city in Iowa; named for the village of East Aurora, New York.
    7. A city in Kansas; named for the city in Illinois.
    8. An unincorporated community in Kentucky.
    9. A neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana.
    10. A town in Maine; named for the goddess.
    11. A city in Saint Louis County, Minnesota.
    12. A city in Missouri; named for the goddess.
    13. A city, the county seat of Hamilton County, Nebraska; named for the city in Illinois.
    14. A ghost town in Nevada; named for the goddess.
    15. A village in Cayuga County, New York.
    16. A town in Erie County, New York.
    17. A town in North Carolina.
    18. A city in Ohio.
    19. A city in Oregon; named for the daughter of the founder, Prussian-American mystic William Keil.
    20. A town in South Dakota; named for the city in Illinois.
    21. A city in Texas.
    22. A city in Utah; named for the aurora borealis seen in the area.
    23. A census-designated place in West Virginia.
    24. A town in Florence County, Wisconsin.
    25. A town in Waushara County, Wisconsin.
    26. A town in Taylor County, Wisconsin.
    27. An unincorporated community in Washington County, Wisconsin.
    28. A ghost town in Kenosha County, Wisconsin.
15. (historical) Maewo (an island of Vanuatu).
16. (historical) Makatea (an island of French Polynesia).

• aroura

Borrowed from Spanish Aurora, from Latin Aurōra. The placenames were named after First Lady Aurora Quezon, the wife of Pres. Manuel Quezon, the 2nd president of the Philippines.

• IPA^(key): /ʔawˈɾoɾa/ [ʔaʊ̯ˈɾo.ɾa]
• Hyphenation: Au‧ro‧ra

Aurora (Basahan spelling ᜀᜂᜍᜓᜍ)

1. a female given name from Spanish [in turn from Latin]
2. a province of Central Luzon, Luzon, Philippines; named for First Lady Aurora Quezon; capital: Baler
3. a locale in the Philippines
   1. a town in Isabela
   2. a town in Zamboanga del Sur; named for Aurora Quezon

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Borrowed from Spanish Aurora, from Latin Aurōra. The placenames were named after First Lady Aurora Quezon, the wife of Pres. Manuel Quezon, the 2nd president of the Philippines.

• Hyphenation: Au‧ro‧ra
• IPA^(key): /ʔawˈɾoɾa/ [ʔɐʊ̯ˈɾ̪o.ɾ̪ɐ]

Aurora

1. a female given name from Latin
2. a province of Central Luzon, Luzon, Philippines; named for First Lady Aurora Quezon; capital: Baler
3. a locale in the Philippines
   1. a town in Isabela
   2. a town in Zamboanga del Sur; named for Aurora Quezon

From Latin Aurōra.

Aurora f

1. a female given name

Matronymics

• son of Aurora: Auroruson
• daughter of Aurora: Aurorudóttir

From Latin Aurōra.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑu̯rorɑ/, [ˈɑ̝u̯ro̞rɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑurorɑ
• Syllabification^(key): Au‧ro‧ra
• Hyphenation^(key): Au‧ro‧ra

Aurora

1. (Roman mythology) Aurora
2. a female given name
   • 2014, Raija Oranen, Aurora, Teos, →ISBN, page 11:

     - Sinä valaiset tämän salin kuin aamurusko, Walleen kiittelee Auroraa viikset mielihyvästä väpättäen. - Aamurusko nimensä mukaan, totisesti, hän jatkaa vaimolleen matalasti.

     - You light up this hall like the dawn. Walleen thanks Aurora with his moustache flapping of pleasure. - Dawn, like her name indeed, he proceeds to say to his wife with his voice kept low.

• Aurora is the 266^th most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 1,951 female individuals (and as a middle name to 20,972 more, making it more common as a middle name), and also belongs to 8 male individuals (and as a middle name to 16 more, making it more common as a middle name), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

• IPA^(key): /aʊ̯ˈʁoːʁa/

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Aurora f (proper noun, genitive Aurora)

1. (Roman mythology) Aurora
   • 2006 June 19, Christoph Dieckmann, “Bluesball”, in Die Zeit‎^[2]:

     Aah, der sittliche Genuss, als Schiedsrichter Larriondas Kärtchen aufflammte wie Auroras Morgengruß! Da wusste man, warum das Farbfernsehen erfunden werden musste.

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• Aurorafalter

Aurora f (genitive Aurora, plural Auroras)

1. (astronomy, uncommon) aurora

   Synonym: Polarlicht

   • 2015 July 29, “Polarlichter auf fernem Himmelskörper entdeckt”, in Die Zeit‎^[3], sourced from dpa:

     Auf nahezu allen Planeten in unserem Sonnensystem haben Forscher ähnlich entstandene Auroras beobachtet. Darüber hinaus jedoch war das Schauspiel noch nicht belegt.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• “Aurora” in Duden online
• “Aurora” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

From Latin Aurōra, from aurōra (“dawn, sunrise”).

• IPA^(key): /awˈrɔ.ra/
• Rhymes: -ɔra
• Hyphenation: Au‧rò‧ra

Aurora f

1. (Roman mythology) Aurora (goddess of dawn)
2. a female given name from Latin, equivalent to English Aurora

• Aurora (divinità) on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it
• Aurora (nome) on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

See aurōra.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [au̯ˈroː.ra]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [au̯ˈrɔː.ra]

Aurōra f (genitive Aurōrae); first declension

1. (personified) (Roman mythology) Aurora, the goddess of the dawn/morning
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.129:

     Ōceanum intereā surgēns Aurōra relīquit.

     Meanwhile Aurora, rising, departs from Oceanus.
     (Line 4.129 is repeated at Aeneid 11.1; cf. “Aurora” in Book 4 at 7, 568, and 585. Imitated by Chaucer in The Legend of Good Women: “The dawening up-rist out of the see, [...].”)

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.721:

     Nox abiit, oriturque Aurōra.

     Night has gone, and Aurora is appearing.
     (See Aurora (mythology).)

2. (transferred) dawn, daybreak, morning
3. The East.

First-declension noun.

• aurōra

Aurora

1. (Roman mythology) Aurora
2. a female given name

Learned borrowing from Latin Aurōra.

• IPA^(key): /awˈrɔ.ra/
• Rhymes: -ɔra
• Syllabification: Au‧ro‧ra
• Homophone: aurora

Aurora f

1. (uncountable, Roman mythology) Aurora (Roman goddess of the dawn, sister of Luna and Sol; equivalent of the Greek Eos)
2. (countable) a female given name from Latin, equivalent to English Aurora

• Aurora in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Aurora in PWN's encyclopedia

Aurora f

1. a female given name

Aurora f

1. a municipality of Santa Catarina, Brazil

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Aurora f

1. a female given name

Borrowed from Latin Aurōra.

• IPA^(key): /auˈɾoɾa/ [au̯ˈɾo.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -oɾa
• Syllabification: Au‧ro‧ra

Aurora f

1. (Roman mythology) Aurora
2. a female given name

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Aurora c (genitive Auroras)

1. (Roman mythology) Aurora
2. a female given name

Borrowed from Spanish Aurora, from Latin Aurōra. The placenames were named after First Lady Aurora Quezon, the wife of Pres. Manuel Quezon, the 2nd president of the Philippines.

• (Standard Tagalog)
  • IPA^(key): /ʔawˈɾoɾa/ [ʔaʊ̯ˈɾoː.ɾɐ]
  • IPA^(key): /ʔoˈɾoɾa/ [ʔoˈɾoː.ɾɐ] (English influence)

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• Rhymes: -oɾa
• Syllabification: Au‧ro‧ra

Aurora (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜏ᜔ᜇᜓᜇ)

1. Aurora (a province of Central Luzon, Luzon, Philippines; capital: Baler)
2. a female given name from Spanish [in turn from Latin]
3. several municipalities in the Philippines
   1. Aurora (a municipality of Isabela)
   2. Aurora (a municipality of Zamboanga del Sur)
   3. (historical) San Francisco (a municipality of Quezon) [prior to 1967]

• Aurora on the Tagalog Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^tl
• “Aurora”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018