Noun: aire
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | aire |
| Plural m | aires |
Sample Sentences
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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.) [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:]
Nouns inflected like aire
sabado,
estreleyro,
sobaco,
bezerro,
febreyro,
miradoiro,
pescoço,
perigoo,
cavaleiro,
portuguees,
paranho,
parayso,
afazemento,
deserto,
dereito,
sagrado,
elefante,
biscoito,
fevreyro,
diluvio, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Latin āēr, borrowed from Ancient Greek ᾱ̓ήρ (āḗr, “air”), from Proto-Hellenic *auhḗr, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewsér, from *h₂ews-. Cognate with Old Spanish ayre. See: Old Spanish Nouns '
ayre'.
Verbs referencing "aire"
Old Spanish Nouns
ayre.
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