auroraとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Latin Aurōra.

固有名詞

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 Western Cape, South Africa; named for the goddess.
8. A town in Suriname.
9. A province of the Philippines; named for First Lady Aurora Quezon.
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 for 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.
    4. A city in 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 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 in Vanuatu)
16. (historical) Makatea (an island in French Polynesia)

派生語

• Aurora County
• East Aurora

アナグラム

• aroura

Latin

語源

See aurōra.

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /au̯ˈroː.ra/, [äu̯ˈroːrä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /au̯ˈro.ra/, [äu̯ˈrɔːrä]

固有名詞

Aurōra f (genitive Aurōrae); first declension

1. (Roman mythology) Aurora, the goddess of the dawn/morning
   • 43 BCE – c. 17 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.

語形変化

First-declension noun.

関連する語

• aurōra