aurore
See also: Aurore
French
Pronunciation
Noun
aurore f (plural aurores)
- aurora
- dawn
- Synonym: aube
- 1820, Alphonse de Lamartine, “Le Lac”, in Premières méditations poétiques:
- «Mais je demande en vain quelques moments encore, ¶ Le temps m’échappe et fuit ; ¶ Je dis à cette nuit : ‹ Sois plus lente › ; et l’aurore ¶ Va dissiper la nuit.»
- "But I ask in vain some moments more ¶ Time escapes from me; ¶ I tell this night: 'Be slower'; and the dawn ¶ Will dissipate the night."
Derived terms
- auroral
- aurore australe
- aurore boréale
- sauce aurore
Further reading
- “aurore” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
- “aurore”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /awˈrɔ.re/
- Rhymes: -ɔre
- Hyphenation: au‧rò‧re
Romanian
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