aire

See also: Aire, airé, aíre, airė, àire, airë, Aïre, aïré, airę, and -aire

English

Noun

aire (countable and uncountable, plural aires)

1. Obsolete spelling of air.

Derived terms

• rockaire

 

Anagrams

• Arie, arie

Aragonese

Etymology

Inherited from Latin āēr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈai̯ɾe/
• Rhymes: -ai̯ɾe
• Syllabification: ai‧re

Noun

aire m

1. air (mixture of gases)
2. wind, breeze
3. air (manner)

   Tien un aire de persona que faría ixo ― It looks like a person who would do that.

4. (equestrianism) gait
5. (music) air, tune

Interjection

aire

1. Encouraging to start a movement, just like let's go

   Synonyms: au, va, tira

Related terms

• aerio

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin aēr, āeris.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaiɾe/, [ˈai̯.ɾe]

Noun

aire m (plural aires)

1. air

Basque

Etymology

From Spanish aire.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• IPA^(key): /ai̯ɾe/, [ai̯.ɾe̞]

Noun

aire inan

1. air (mixture of gasses)

Declension

Declension of aire (inanimate, ending in vowel)

	indefinite	singular	plural
absolutive	aire	airea	aireak
ergative	airek	aireak	aireek
dative	aireri	aireari	aireei
genitive	aireren	airearen	aireen
comitative	airerekin	airearekin	aireekin
causative	airerengatik	airearengatik	aireengatik
benefactive	airerentzat	airearentzat	aireentzat
instrumental	airez	aireaz	aireez
inessive	airetan	airean	aireetan
locative	airetako	aireko	aireetako
allative	airetara	airera	aireetara
terminative	airetaraino	aireraino	aireetaraino
directive	airetarantz	airerantz	aireetarantz
destinative	airetarako	airerako	aireetarako
ablative	airetatik	airetik	aireetatik
partitive	airerik	—	—
prolative	airetzat	—	—

Further reading

• “aire”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia
• “aire”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin āēr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈaj.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈaj.ɾe]

• Audio:

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Noun

aire m (plural aires)

1. air (mixture of gases)
2. wind, breeze
3. air (manner)

   Té un aire de salut ― It looks healthy.

4. (equestrianism) gait
5. (music) air, tune

Derived terms

• a l'aire lliure
• aire comprimit
• cop d'aire
• enlaire

 

Related terms

• aeri

Further reading

• “aire” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “aire”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “aire” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “aire” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛʁ/

• une aire:

  (file)

• Homophones: air, airent, aires, airs, ère, ères, erre, errent, erres, ers (general), haire, haires, hère, hères, r (aspirated)

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old French aire, eire, from Latin ārea. Doublet of are and area, which were learned borrowings.

Noun

aire f (plural aires)

1. (geometry) (surface) area

   Synonym: superficie

2. (architecture) a flat surface
3. (sailing) direction of the wind
4. threshing floor
5. area, zone, range (a space in which a certain thing occurs)

Derived terms

• aire d’autoroute
• aire de Broca
• aire de distribution
• aire de lancement
• aire de répartition
• aire de repos
• aire de Wernicke
• aire urbaine
• aire de jeux

Related terms

• airial
• are

Etymology 2

Probably from Latin ager, agrum (and hence a doublet of ager, a later borrowing), or related to the above. Compare Old Occitan agre (“bird's nest”).

Noun

aire f (plural aires)

1. eyrie, aerie

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

aire

1. inflection of airer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular present imperative

Further reading

• “aire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• raie

Galician

Alternative forms

• ar

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese aire (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin aēr, aeris.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈajɾe̝/

Noun

aire m (plural aires)

1. air
   • 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:

     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

2. evil eye

Derived terms

• aire acondicionado
• aire comprimido
• airear
• airoso
• ao aire
• ao aire
• ao aire libre
• cambiar de aires
• colchón de aire
• mudar de aires

References

• “aire”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “aire”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “aire”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “aire”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “aire”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Irish

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /ˈaɾʲə/, /ˈɑɾʲə/
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈæːɾʲə/, /ˈaːɾʲə/, /ˈɑːɾʲə/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈæɾʲə/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish aire f (“guarding, watching over”)

Noun

aire f (genitive singular aire)

1. care, attention
2. heed, notice

Declension

Declension of aire

Fourth declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative aire Vocative a aire Genitive aire Dative aire

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Nominative an aire Genitive na haire Dative leis an aire don aire

Derived terms

• aireach (“careful”)

Etymology 2

From Old Irish aire, from Proto-Celtic *aryos, of disputed origin (see Old Irish entry for more).

Noun

aire m (genitive singular aireach, nominative plural aireacha)

2. (literary) nobleman, chief, freeman

Declension

Declension of aire

Fifth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative aire aireacha Vocative a aire a aireacha Genitive aireach aireacha Dative aire airigh (archaic, dialectal) aireacha

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an t-aire na haireacha Genitive an aireach na n-aireacha Dative leis an aire leis an airigh (archaic, dialectal) don aire don airigh (archaic, dialectal) leis na haireacha

Derived terms

• bó-aire

Noun

aire m (genitive singular aire, nominative plural airí)

1. (government) minister

Declension

Declension of aire

Fourth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative aire airí Vocative a aire a airí Genitive aire airí Dative aire airí

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an t-aire na hairí Genitive an aire na n-airí Dative leis an aire don aire leis na hairí

Derived terms

• aireacht f (“ministry”)
• binse na nAirí (“the front bench”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
aire	n-aire	haire	t-aire
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “aire”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 16
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “aire”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Italian

Etymology 1

From a +‎ ire.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈi.re/
• Rhymes: -ire
• Hyphenation: a‧ì‧re

Noun

aire m (uncountable) (literary)

1. impulse, start (of a motion)

   Synonyms: (literary) abbrivo, avvio, rincorsa, slancio, spinta

   dare l'aire a qualcosa ― to put something into motion (literally, “to give the start to something”)

   prendere l'aire ― to start moving (literally, “to take the start”)

Etymology 2

Variant of aere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaj.re/
• Rhymes: -ajre
• Hyphenation: ài‧re

Noun

aire m (plural airi)

1. (archaic) Alternative form of aere

Anagrams

• -arie, -erai, -eria, -iera, aeri, arie, raie

Ladino

Etymology

From Latin āēr.

Noun

aire m (Latin spelling)

1. air, wind

   Synonym: airi (Monastir)

Middle English

Alternative forms

• ayre, eire, eyre, aere

Etymology

From Old French air,aer, from Latin āēr, from Ancient Greek ἀήρ (aḗr).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æi̯r/

Noun

aire (plural aires)

1. air

Descendants

• English: air
• Scots: air
• Yola: aare

References

• “air, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Occitan

Alternative forms

• àira (Guardiol)

Etymology

From Latin āēr.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

aire m (plural aires)

1. air (mixture of gases)

Old French

Etymology 1

Variant of air.

Noun

aire oblique singular, m (oblique plural aires, nominative singular aires, nominative plural aire)

1. appearance; semblance

Derived terms

• debonaire
• deputaire

Etymology 2

From Latin acer.

Adjective

aire m (oblique and nominative feminine singular aire)

1. Alternative form of aigre

References

• “aigre” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old Irish

Etymology

Originally a io-stem (as shown by the dative plural form airib and the personal name Lóegaire (literally “favorite nobleman”) with vocative and genitive Lóegairi), later reanalyzed as a k-stem due to conflation with the synonymous airech. From Proto-Celtic *aryos (compare Gaulish personal names with Ario-, such as Ario-manus and Ario-vistus), of unknown origin.

• Historically (since the now-defunct derivation of Adolphe Pictet, 1858) speculated to mean "freeman", and furthermore supposed to be related to Indo-Iranian *áryas (via Proto-Indo-European *h₂éryos). This idea was especially popular in the 19th- and early 20th-century context of "Aryan" race and language theory, which posited Aryans as "noble" "freemen" opposed to slave-like दास (dāsa)/Semites. Today, for linguistic reasons, any attempt to find a European cognate for the Indo-Iranian autonym is treated with extreme skepsis. See *áryas for details.
• According to Meid, it is from Proto-Indo-European *pr̥h₃- (“first”) (Sanskrit पूर्व (pūrvá), Ancient Greek πρῶτος (prôtos), Lithuanian pirmas). According to Matasović this is less convincing because there are no traces of the laryngeal in the purported Celtic reflexes: *pr̥h₃yos would have given *ɸrāyos. See ro-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈarʲe/

Noun

aire m (genitive airech, nominative plural airig)

1. freeman (whether commoner or noble)
2. noble (as distinct from commoner)

Declension

Masculine k-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	aire	airigL	airig
Vocative	aire	airigL	airecha
Accusative	airigN	airigL	airecha
Genitive	airech	airech	airechN
Dative	airigL	airechaib, airib	airechaib, airib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

• airegdae
• frithaire

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
aire (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-aire
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 43
• W. Meid (2005), Keltische Personennamen in Pannonien, Archaeolingua, Budapest.
• Mallory, J. P., Adams, D. Q., editors (1997), Encyclopedia of Indo-European culture, London, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, page 213
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “3 aire (‘nobleman, chief’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ai‧re

Verb

aire

1. inflection of airar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Scots

Etymology 1

Noun

aire (plural aires)

1. Alternative form of air (“small quantity”)

References

• “aire, n.²” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

Etymology 2

Noun

aire (plural aires)

1. Northern Isles form of air (“beach”)

References

• “aire, n.⁴” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish aire f (“freeman, noble”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aɾʲə/
• (Lewis) IPA^(key): [aðə]

Noun

aire f (genitive singular aire)

1. mind

   Tha rudeigin air a h-aire. ― There's something on her mind.

2. attention, heed, notice
3. care, regard

   Thoiribh an aire oiribh! ― Take care of yourselves!

Synonyms

• (attention, regard): suim

Derived terms

• cuir an aire
• fa-near

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
aire	n-aire	h-aire	t-aire
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaiɾe/ [ˈai̯.ɾe]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aiɾe
• Syllabification: ai‧re

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin āēr, from Ancient Greek ἀήρ (aḗr).

Noun

aire m (plural aires)

1. air (the substance constituting earth's atmosphere)
2. air (the open space above the ground)
3. air; wind

   Synonym: viento

4. air (a feeling or sense)
5. resemblance (to another person)
6. (usually in the plural) air (pretension; snobbishness)

   darse aires ― to put on airs

7. air (a sense of poise, graciousness, or quality)

Derived terms

• a su aire
• acondicionador de aire
• aire acondicionado
• aire comprimido
• aire de agua
• aire de suficiencia
• aire de taco
• aire fresco
• aire libre
• airear
• airecillo
• airecito
• airoso
• al aire
• al aire libre
• alimentarse del aire
• azotar el aire
• bolsa de aire
• bomba de aire
• Buenos Aires
• cámara de aire
• cambiar de aires
• castillos en el aire
• cojín de aire
• colchón de aire
• compresor de aire
• con el culo al aire
• de buen aire
• de mal aire
• de puro aire
• de una ire
• disparar al aire
• en el aire
• filtro de aire (“air filter”)
• freidora de aire
• general del Aire
• golpe de aire
• hoja del aire
• madera del aire
• mudar aires
• ofenderse del aire
• palabras al aire
• pelo de aire
• pistola de aire
• red del aire
• rifle de aire
• sustentarse del aire
• tomar aire
• tomar el aire
• viga de aire
• vivir del aire

Related terms

• aéreo
• neumático

 

Descendants

• → Basque: aire
• → Tagalog: eyre

Interjection

aire

1. get out; begone; away!

Etymology 2

From zorá (“drunken”), named by a zoologist after the shivering movements by the animal's head.

Noun

aire m (plural aires)

1. solenodon

   Synonym: almiquí

References

• Sitzungsberichte: Biologische Wissenschaften und Erdwissenschaften, Volumes 191-192, p. 225

Further reading

• “aire”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014