(inanimate noun) declension indefinite singular plural absolutive aire airea aireak ergative airek aireak aireek dative aireri aireari aireei genitive aireren airearen aireen comitative airerekin airearekin aireekin causative airerentzat airearentzat aireentzat benefactive airerengatik airearengatik aireengatik 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 - -

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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin āēr.

Pronunciation

• (Eastern) IPA^(key): /ˈajɾə/
• (Western) IPA^(key): /ˈajɾe/

Noun

aire m ‎(plural aires)

1. air (mixture of gases)

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛʁ/
• IPA^(key): /y.n‿ɛʁ/

Etymology 1

From Latin ārea.

Noun

aire f ‎(plural aires)

1. (geometry) (surface) area
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)

Synonyms

• (surface area): superficie

Etymology 2

Possibly from Latin ager, agrum, or related to the above. Compare Old Provençal agre ‎(“bird's nest”).

Noun

aire f ‎(plural aires)

1. eyrie, aerie

Verb

aire

1. first-person singular present indicative of airer
2. third-person singular present indicative of airer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of airer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of airer
5. second-person singular present imperative of airer

Anagrams

• raie

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Galician

Etymology

From Latin aēr, aeris.

Noun

aire m ‎(plural aires)

1. air

Synonyms

• ar

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Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɾʲə/
• (Aran) IPA^(key): /ˈæɾʲə/, /ˈaɾʲə/, /ˈɑːɾʲə/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish aire f ‎(“act of guarding, watching over, tending, caring for; notice, heed, attention”).

Noun

aire f ‎(genitive singular aire)

1. care, attention
2. heed, notice

Declension

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)

1. (literary) nobleman, chief, freeman

Declension

Noun

aire m ‎(genitive singular aire, nominative plural airí)

1. (government) minister

Declension

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.

References

• “1 aire (‘act of guarding, watching over’)” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• “3 aire (‘nobleman, chief’)” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• “aire” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
• Franz Nikolaus Finck, 1899, Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. II, 26.
• "aire" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

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Italian

Noun

aire m ‎(invariable)

1. impulse

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Ladino

Etymology

From Latin āēr.

Noun

aire m ‎(Latin spelling)

1. air, wind

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Occitan

Alternative forms

• (Guardiol) ària

Etymology

From Latin āēr.

Noun

aire m (plural aires)

1. air (mixture of gases)

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Old French

Noun

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

1. appearance; semblance

Derived terms

• debonaire
• deputaire

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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 *arya-. 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 *arya- 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).

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, aireL	airig
Vocative	aire	airigL, aireL	airechaH
Accusative	airigN	airigL, aireL	airechaH
Genitive	airech	airechL	airechN
Dative	airigL	airechaib, airib	airechaib, airib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
aire	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 978-90-04-17336-1, 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
• “3 aire (‘nobleman, chief’)” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ai‧re

Verb

aire

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of airar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of airar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of airar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of airar

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Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish aire f ‎(“act of guarding, watching over, tending, caring for; notice, heed, attention”).

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.

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈai.ɾe/
• Hyphenation: ai‧re

Etymology 1

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

Noun

aire m ‎(plural aires)

1. air

Derived terms

• airear verb

Etymology 2

Noun

aire m ‎(plural aires)

1. solenodon

Synonyms

• almiquí m