era

• æra (archaic)

Borrowed from Late Latin aera.

• (UK) enPR: îr'ə, IPA^(key): /ˈɪə̯ɹ.ə/

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• Rhymes: -ɪəɹə
• (US) enPR: ĕr'ə, IPA^(key): /ˈɛɹ.ə/, /ˈɪɹ.ə/

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• Homophone: error (in non-rhotic accents)
• Rhymes: -ɛɹə

era (plural eras)

1. A time period of indeterminate length, generally more than one year.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 6, in The China Governess‎:

     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 1, Philip E. Mirowski, “Harms to Health from the Pursuit of Profits”, in American Scientist‎, volume 100, number 1, 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 unit of time, smaller than eons and greater than periods.

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

• (geological time units) supereon, aeon/eon, era, period, epoch, age/sub-epoch

• (geological time unit): Cenozoic era, erathem, Mesozoic era, Paleozoic era

• 'ear, ARE, Aer, EAR, REA, Rae, Rea, aer-, are, aër-, ear, rea

From Late Latin aera.

era f (plural eres)

1. era (time period)

• época

era

1. manner

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈe.ɾə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈe.ɾa/

From Late Latin aera.

era f (plural eres)

1. era (time period)

   Synonym: època

From Old Occitan, 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 main entry.

era

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

• “era” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

era

1. (intransitive) to say

• ereni

• IPA^(key): /ˈera/
• Hyphenation: er‧a
• Rhymes: -era

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

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

era

1. third-person singular imperfect indicative of sel
   • 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-person and third-person singular imperfect indicative of ser

era (plural eras)

1. era

From Late Latin aera.

era f (plural ere)

1. age, epoch, period
2. (geology) era

era

1. third-person singular imperfect indicative of essere

• epoca
• età

• are, rea

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈe.ra/, [ˈɛ.ra]

era f (genitive erae); first declension

1. mistress (of a house, with respect to the servants)

First declension.

era

1. and then (only used for occurrences in chronological order)

• ne

The Essentials of Luganda, J. D. Chesswas, 4th edition. Oxford University Press: Nairobi. 1967, p. 95.

• ero
• er

era

1. (archaic)(nonstandard) Present tense plural form of vera

From Proto-Germanic *aizō.

ēra f

1. honour
2. dignity

• unēra

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

• “ēra”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈeː.ra/

ēra f

1. honour
2. renown
3. respect

• German: Ehre

• Henry Frowde, An Old High German Primer
• Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer with grammar, notes and glossary, Second Edition

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛː.rɑ/

ēra f

1. honour
2. renown
3. glory

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔɛɾa/, /ˈtɛɾa/

era

1. name

• The stem era could never be used inside a sentence without a prefix. The absolute form tera was used whenever the noun was not possessed.

• LEMOS BARBOSA, A. Curso de Tupi antigo. Rio de Janeiro: Livraria São José, 1956.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛ.ra/

era f

1. era

• n.e., p.n.e.

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɛ.ɾɐ/
• Hyphenation: e‧ra
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• Homophones: hera, Hera
• Rhymes: -ɛra

Inflected form of ser (“to be”).

era

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

From Late Latin aera.

era f (plural eras)

1. era (time period of indeterminate length, generally more than one year)
2. (archaeology) age (period of human prehistory)
3. (geology) era (unit of time, smaller than aeons and greater than periods)

• (indeterminately lengthy time period): época
• (period of human prehistory): idade

era

1. that

• IPA^(key): [jeˈra]

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

Borrowed from Late Latin aera.

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

éra f (Cyrillic spelling е́ра)

1. era

• Hyphenation: e‧ra

see ser

era

1. First-person singular (yo) imperfect indicative form of ser.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperfect indicative form of ser.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) imperfect indicative form of ser.

• estaba

From Late Latin aera.

era f (plural eras)

1. era
2. (geology) era

Inherited from Latin ārea. Compare the borrowed doublet área.

era f (plural eras)

1. threshing floor
2. tipple

• edra (archaic)

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

era (singular form er)

1. your, yours (multiple owners of more than one object)
2. you (only in this use:)

   Era jävla idioter!

   You bloody idiots!

   Era små fan!

   You little bastards!

From Latin aera.

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era c

1. era