era

era

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Eravallan.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Eravallan terms

• aera, æra (archaic)

Borrowed from Late Latin aera.

• enPR: îrʹə:
  • (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈɪə.ɹə/, [ˈɪə̯.ɹə ~ ˈɪː.ɹə]

    • Audio (UK); [ˈɪː.ɹə]:

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  • (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /iə.ɹə/, [ˈi̞ə̯.ɹə ~ ˈiː.ɹə]
  • (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈi.ɾə/, [ˈiː.ɾə]
  • (East Anglia, cheer–chair merger) IPA^(key): /ˈɛː.ɹə/, [ˈɛ̝.ɹə ~ ˈe̞ː.ɹə]
  • Rhymes: -ɪəɹə
  • Homophone: airer (non-rhotic, cheer–chair merger)
• (US) enPR: ĕrʹə, îrʹə; IPA^(key): /ˈɛɹ.ə/, /ˈɪɚ.ə/

  • Audio (US); /ˈɛɹ.ə/:

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  • Homophone: error (/ˈɛɹ.ə/, non-rhotic)
• (Indic) IPA^(key): /ˈɛ.ra/, [ɛ(ː).ɾäˑ]
• Rhymes: -ɛɹə, -ɪəɹə
• Hyphenation: e‧ra

era (plural eras)

1. A time period of indeterminate length, generally more than one year.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 6, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

     Even in an era when individuality in dress is a cult, his clothes were noticeable. He was wearing a hard hat of the low round kind favoured by hunting men, and with it a black duffle-coat lined with white.

   • 2012 January, Philip E. Mirowski, “Harms to Health from the Pursuit of Profits”, in American Scientist‎^[2], volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 4 April 2012, page 87:

     In an era when political leaders promise deliverance from decline through America’s purported preeminence in scientific research, the news that science is in deep trouble in the United States has been as unwelcome as a diagnosis of leukemia following the loss of health insurance.

2. (geology) A geochronologic unit of tens to hundreds of millions of years; a subdivision of an eon, and subdivided into periods.
3. (informal) An indefinite period of time in one’s life characterized by a particular interest.

• (time period of indeterminate length): age, epoch, period
• See also Thesaurus:era

• (cosmological time unit): stelliferous era, degenerate era, black hole era
• (geochronologic unit): Cenozoic era, erathem, Mesozoic era, Paleozoic era

• era on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• 'ear, Åre, ear, Rea, rea, EAR, REA, aer-, A.R.E., ReA, ARE, aër-, Are, Aer, are, Rae

era

1. definite nominative singular of erë

From Late Latin aera.

• IPA^(key): /ˈeɾa/ [ˈe.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -eɾa
• Syllabification: e‧ra

era f (plural eres)

1. era (time period)

   Synonyms: dómina, época

Borrowed from Russian э́ра (éra), ultimately from Late Latin aera.

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era (definite accusative eranı, plural eralar)

1. era

   yeni eraya qədəm qoymaq ― to enter a new era

   eramızdan əvvəl ― before the common era

• “era” in Obastan.com.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.).

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era inan

1. manner

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈe.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈe.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -eɾa

Borrowed from Late Latin aera.

era f (plural eres)

1. era (time period)

   Synonym: època

Inherited from Latin ārea (“open space; threshing floor”). Compare the borrowed doublet àrea.

era f (plural eres)

1. small section of arable land destined for cultivation

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

era

1. first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of ser
2. first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of ésser

• “era”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “era”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “era” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “era”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Inherited from Spanish era (“was”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈeɾa/, [ˈe.ɾa]
• Hyphenation: e‧ra

era

1. almost; nearly

   Ya olvida yo era habla con ele.

   I almost forgot to tell him.

2. used to express an unrealized intention or situation

   Ya dale era yo el libro na de mio amigo.

   I should have given the book to my friend.

era

1. (intransitive) to say

• ereni

Inherited from Proto-Muskogean *θali.

• (Oklahoma) IPA^(key): [ɪɬɑ́ˑ]
• Hyphenation: e‧ra

era

1. his/her back

• J. B. Martin; M. McKane Mauldrin (2004), A dictionary of Creek/Muscogee, University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 31
• J. B. Martin (2011), A grammar of Creek (Muscogee), University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 134

Borrowed from Latin aera.

• IPA^(key): /ˈeː.raː/

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• Hyphenation: era
• Rhymes: -eːraː

era f (plural era's, no diminutive)

1. era, age, epoch

   Synonyms: eeuw, tijdperk

2. (dated) era, calendar

   Synonym: jaartelling

• → Indonesian: era

• IPA^(key): /ˈera/
• Rhymes: -era
• Syllabification: e‧ra

era (accusative singular eran, plural eraj, accusative plural erajn)

1. adjective form of ero (“bit, piece”)

era

1. first-person singular imperfect indicative of sel (“to be”)
2. third-person singular imperfect indicative of sel (“to be”)
   • 2000, Domingo Frades Gaspar, Vamus a falal: Notas pâ coñocel y platical en nosa fala, Editora regional da Extremadura, Theme IV, Chapter 1: Non Diptongación da “E” i a “O” en Nossa Fala:

     Tampocu era normal en o leonés antiguu, según os estudius dos escritus i textus estudiaus, por ejemplu por Menéndez Pidal, quen tamén viñu i estudió o mañegu.

     Neither was it normal in Old Leonese, according to studies of the writings and the texts studied, by Menéndez Pidal for example, who also came and studied Mañego.

era

1. first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of ser

Borrowed from Dutch era, from Latin aera.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈera/ [ˈe.ra]
• Rhymes: -era
• Syllabification: e‧ra

era (plural era-era)

1. era, age, epoch

Borrowed from Hitu [Term?]

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈera/ [ˈe.ra]
• Rhymes: -era
• Syllabification: e‧ra

era (plural era-era)

1. sago dreg

• “era”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

era (plural eras)

1. era

era

1. optional irregular past tense form of esser ("to be")

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛ.ra/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ɛra
• Hyphenation: è‧ra

Borrowed from Late Latin aera.

era f (plural ere)

1. age, epoch, period

   Synonyms: epoca, età

2. (geology) era

Inherited from Latin erat.

era

1. third-person singular imperfect indicative of essere

From Latin eram.

era

1. (obsolete) alternative form of ero, first-person singular imperfect indicative of essere
   • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 10–12; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     Io non so ben ridir com’i’ v’intrai, ¶ tant’era pien di sonno a quel punto ¶ che la verace via abbandonai.

     I cannot well repeat how there I entered, ⁠¶ ⁠So full was I of slumber at the moment ¶ ⁠In which I had abandoned the true way.

• -are, Rea, are, rea

era (Hebrew spelling אירה)

1. first-person singular imperfect indicative of ser
2. third-person singular imperfect indicative of ser

• hera

De Vaan lists the term as a derivative of erus (“master of the family”), in which case presumably from erus +‎ -a.^[1] Adams and Mallory suggest a possible derivation from Proto-Indo-European *h₁esh₂éh₂, itself related to Proto-Indo-European *h₁esh₂ós. This theory is premised on the cognancy of Hittite išḫāš and Hittite išḫaššaraš (“lady, mistress”).^[2][3]

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

era f (genitive erae, masculine erus); first declension

1. mistress (of a house, with respect to the servants)
2. a female ruler or governor; governeress, ruleress, leaderess

First-declension noun.

• “era”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “era”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• era in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “era”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎^[3], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
• "era", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

era

1. and, and then (only used for occurrences in chronological order)
2. also, too
3. besides

• ne

• J. D. Chesswas (1967), The Essentials of Luganda, 4th edition, Nairobi: Oxford University Press, page 95
• Snoxall, R. A. (1967), Luganda-English Dictionary - with an Introduction on the Tonal System, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 59
• Murphy, John D. (1972), Luganda-English Dictionary, United States: The Catholic University of America Press, →ISBN, page 71

• IPA^(key): /ˈeɾa/ [ˈe.ɾɐ]
• Rhymes: -eɾa
• Syllabification: e‧ra

era

1. first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of ser

Inherited from Old Tupi era.

• IPA^(key): /ˈera/, (Rio Negro, Solimões) [ˈɛ.ɾɐ]
• Rhymes: -era
• Hyphenation: e‧ra

era (IIf class pluriform, plural era-itá, absolute era, R1 rera, R2 sera)

1. name

   era rupí ― in the name of

• Avila, Marcel Twardowsky (2021), “era”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, pages 300–301

era

1. (archaic or dialectal) plural present of vera

Inherited from Latin illa(m), with a /l/ > /r/ shift.

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era f

1. feminine singular of eth

era

1. (Gascony) she

From Proto-West Germanic *aiʀu, from Proto-Germanic *aizō.

ēra f

1. honour
2. dignity

• unēra

• Middle Dutch: êre
  • Dutch: eer
    • Afrikaans: eer
    • Negerhollands: eer
  • Limburgish: ieër

• “ēra”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

• IPA^(key): /ˈe.rɑ/
• Rhymes: -e.rɑ

era

1. imperative singular of erian

• IPA^(key): /ˈeː.rɑ/
• Rhymes: -eː.rɑ

ēra

1. genitive plural of ēre

From Proto-West Germanic *aiʀu, from Proto-Germanic *aizō, whence also Old English ār, Old Norse eir.

• IPA^(key): /ˈeː.ra/

ēra f

1. honour
2. renown
3. respect

• Middle High German: ēre
  • Central Franconian:

    Hunsrik: Eher

    Luxembourgish: Éier

  • German: Ehre
  • Rhine Franconian: Ehr, Ihr
  • Vilamovian: ere

• Henry Frowde, An Old High German Primer
• Wright, Joseph (1906), An Old High German Primer‎^[4], 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press

From Proto-West Germanic *aiʀu, from Proto-Germanic *aizō, whence also Old English ār, Old Norse eir.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛː.rɑ/

ēra f

1. honour
2. renown
3. glory

• Middle Low German: ēre
  • Low German: Ehr, Ehre
  • → Old Norse: æra, eir
    • Danish: ære
    • Icelandic: æra
    • Faroese: æra
    • Norwegian Nynorsk: ære
    • Norwegian Bokmål: ære
    • Swedish: ära
    • Icelandic: eir m or n
    • ⇒ Faroese: eirdómur, eirgingin, eirgrønur, eiring
    • Norwegian Nynorsk: eir n
      • → Norwegian Bokmål: eir n
    • Old Swedish: ēr
      • Swedish: ärg c
    • Danish: ir c
      • Norwegian Bokmål: irr n

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *teT, from Proto-Tupian *jeT.^[1]

Cognate with Paraguayan Guarani téra.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛ.ɾa/
• Rhymes: -ɛɾa
• Hyphenation: e‧ra

era (possessable, IIa class pluriform, absolute tera, R1 rera, R2 sera)

1. name

• Nheengatu: era
• →⇒ Portuguese: xará

• Antônio Lemos Barbosa (1956), Curso de tupi antigo: gramática, exercícios, textos [Course of Old Tupi: Grammar, Exercises, Texts]‎^[5] (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Livraria São José
• Navarro, Eduardo de Almeida (2013), “era”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil ] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 109, column 1

Internationalism; compare English era, French ère, German Ära, ultimately from Late Latin aera.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛ.ra/

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• Rhymes: -ɛra
• Syllabification: e‧ra

era f

1. era

• “era”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[6] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “era”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[7] (in Polish)

• Rhymes: -ɛɾɐ
• Homophones: hera, Hera
• Hyphenation: e‧ra

• Audio (Brazil (Caipira)):

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• Audio (Brazil (São Paulo)):

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• Audio (Portugal (Porto)):

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Borrowed from Late Latin aera.

era f (plural eras)

1. era (time period of indeterminate length, generally more than one year)

   Synonym: época

2. (archaeology) age (period of human prehistory)

   Synonym: idade

3. (geology) era (unit of time, smaller than aeons and greater than periods)

Inherited from Latin eram and erat.

era

1. first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of ser

• “era”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “era”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *e-la. Cognates include Tuamotuan era and Māori ērā.

• IPA^(key): /ˈe.ɾa/
• Hyphenation: e‧ra

era

1. that

   Te vaka era. ― That canoe.

• Veronica Du Feu (1996), Rapanui (Descriptive Grammars), Routledge, →ISBN, page 145
• Paulus Kieviet (2017), A grammar of Rapa Nui‎^[8], Berlin: Language Science Press, →ISBN, page 194

• IPA^(key): [jeˈra]
• IPA^(key): [eˈra]

era

1. third-person singular imperfect indicative of fi: he/she was (being)

   el era pierdut

   he was lost

   el era sarcastic

   he was being sarcastic

• IPA^(key): [ˈera]

era f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of eră

-êra (infinitive kwêra, perfective -êze)

1. be white
2. be pure, be innocent
3. be holy
4. be ripe

• icyumweru / icumweru (“week”)
• umwera (“white person”)
• umweru (“something white”)

Borrowed from Late Latin aera.

• IPA^(key): /ěːra/
• Hyphenation: e‧ra

éra f (Cyrillic spelling е́ра)

1. era

• IPA^(key): /ˈeɾa/ [ˈe.ɾa]

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• Rhymes: -eɾa
• Syllabification: e‧ra

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

era

1. first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of ser

• estaba

Borrowed from Late Latin aera.

era f (plural eras)

1. era, age

   la Nueva Era ― New Age

2. (geology) era

Inherited from Latin ārea. Compare the borrowed doublet área.

era f (plural eras)

1. threshing floor
2. tipple

• “era”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

• IPA^(key): /eːra/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: e‧ra

From Old Norse yðr, yðar, from Proto-Germanic *izwiz.

• edra (archaic)

era (singular form er)

1. (possessive) your, yours (possessed by the multiple individuals addressed, of multiple things)

   Är det här era spelkulor, pojkar?

   Are these your marbles, boys?

2. you (vocative determiner used before a plural noun, regardless of gender)

   Era jävla idioter!

   You bloody idiots!

   Era svin!

   You assholes [swine]!

From Latin aera.

era c

1. an era

• “er”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “er”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “er”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

• -are, rea

era

1. water

• ira (Weirate and Deirate dialects)

• Duane A. Clouse, 1997, Toward a reconstruction and reclassification of the Lakes Plain languages of Irian Jaya, In Karl J. Franklin (ed.), Papers in Papuan linguistics No. 2, 133-236. Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, page 172

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *-jéda (“to shine”), potentially from Proto-Atlantic-Congo *jel- (“to shine, to be white”).

• IPA^(key): /éːɾa/

-era (infinitive okwera) (intransitive)

1. to be white; to become white
2. to be or become clean

   Synonym: -ecumi (adjective)

3. (chiefly of millet and other crops) to be or become ripe

   Synonym: (chiefly of fruits) -enga

4. to be or become holy

   Ekitabu Ekirukwera ― the Holy Bible

5. (of the king) to smile

• Verbal derivations:
  • Applicative: -erra
  • Short causative: -eza

Colors in Tooro · erangi (layout · text)

-era	kibuubi	-iragura, kikara
-tukura, -nanata	rutanga; kitaka	kyenju
	kijubu, kinyansi
		bururu
	kakobe

• Kaji, Shigeki (2007), A Rutooro Vocabulary‎^[9], Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), →ISBN