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area

Pronunciation: [ˈaː.re.a]

“area” is a Latin word. Its 10 meanings in English:

noun

  1. a piece of level ground, a vacant place (esp. in the town)
  2. ground for a house, a building-spot
  3. a vacant space around or in a house, a court
  4. an open space for games, an open play-ground
  5. a threshing floor
  6. the halo around the sun or moon
  7. a bed or border in a garden
  8. a fowling-floor
  9. a burying-ground, church-yard
  10. a bald spot upon the head, baldness

In Latin

  1. in qua frumenta secta teruntur et arescunt.
  2. Locus in urbe purus, hoc est vacuus, in quo aedificari potest.
  3. Locus vacuus inter urbana aedificia, cuiusmodi sunt plateae etc.
  4. Locus ipse vacuus relictus ante aut post optimatum aedes, vel in medio earum.
  5. Locus in quo sunt sepulcra.
  6. Spatium horto, ubi semina iaciuntur, sive arboribus frugiferis inserviens.
  7. Locus purgatus, in quo aucupes spargunt grana ad aves alliciendas.
  8. In caelo circulus fulgoris, qui aliquando solem, lunam et alia etiam sidera circumnectit.
  9. Spatii in geometrarum figuris, forma plana.

Etymology

Of disputed etymology: * Either from Proto-Italic *āzeā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eHs-e-yeh₂, from *h₂eHs- (“to burn”) (whence āreō, ārā), * Or from Proto-Italic *āreā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eh₂r-e-yeh₂, from *h₂eh₂rh₃- (“threshing tool”) (cognate with Hittite [script needed] (ḫaḫḫar, “rake, threshing tool”)), resultative reduplicated noun from verb *h₂erh₃- (“to plough”).

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