aire

aire (countable and uncountable, plural aires)

1. Obsolete spelling of air.

• Arie, arie

Inherited from Latin āēr.

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

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

aire

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

   Synonyms: au, va, tira

• aerio

From Latin aēr, āeris.

• IPA^(key): /ˈai̯ɾe/ [ˈai̯.ɾe]
• Rhymes: -ai̯ɾe
• Syllabification: ai‧re

aire m (plural aires)

1. air

From Spanish aire.

• IPA^(key): /ai̯ɾe/ [ai̯.ɾe]

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• Rhymes: -ai̯ɾe, -e
• Hyphenation: ai‧re

aire inan

1. air (mixture of gasses)

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

Inherited from Latin āēr.

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

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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

• aeri

• “aire”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “aire”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “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.

• IPA^(key): /ɛʁ/

• une aire:

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

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

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)

• airial
• are

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”).

aire f (plural aires)

1. eyrie, aerie

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

aire

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

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

• raie

• ar

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese aire, from Latin āēr, borrowed from Ancient Greek ᾱ̓ήρ (āḗr), from Proto-Hellenic *auhḗr, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewsér, from *h₂ews-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈajɾe/ [ˈa̠j.ɾɪ]
• Rhymes: -ajɾe
• Hyphenation: ai‧re

aire m (plural aires)

1. air
2. evil eye

   Synonyms: mal de ollo, ollada

• “aire”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
• 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

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /ˈaɾʲə/^[1], /ˈɑɾʲə/^[2]
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈæːɾʲə/, /ˈaːɾʲə/, /ˈɑːɾʲə/^[3]
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈæɾʲə/^[4]

From Old Irish aire f (“guarding, watching over”)^[5]

aire f (genitive singular aire)

1. care, attention
2. heed, notice

• aireach (“careful”)

From Old Irish aire,^[6] from Proto-Celtic *aryos, of disputed origin (see Old Irish entry for more).

aire m (genitive singular aireach, nominative plural aireacha)

1. (literary) nobleman, chief, freeman

• bó-aire

aire m (genitive singular aire, nominative plural airí)

1. (government) minister

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

• 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

From a +‎ ire.

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

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”)

Variant of aere.

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

aire m (plural airi)

1. (archaic) alternative form of aere

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

• airi (Monastir), ayre

Inherited from Old Spanish aire, ayre, from Latin āēr, from Ancient Greek ἀήρ (aḗr).

aire m (Hebrew spelling איירי)^[1]

1. air (wind)
   • 1940, La boz de Türkiye‎^[1], numbers 11–34, page 277:

     Por las calles, circulan algunas mujeres livianamente vestidas, curbadas por al frio, allas van bujcar de cualo meter un pedaso de pan bajo sue dientes o algun poco de carvon para callentar sus criaturas dejadas en casa onde el aire, la luvia, y la nieve entran de todas las partas.

     Some conveniently dressed women circulate through the streets, crooked from the cold; they go seeking some way to put a piece of bread between their teeth, or a little bit of coal to warm their babies left at home where the wind, rain, and snow get everywhere.

2. (music) melody; tune
3. appearance; similarity

• ayre, eire, eyre, aere

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

• IPA^(key): /æi̯r/

aire (plural aires)

1. air

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

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

• àira (Guardiol)

From Latin āēr.

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aire m (plural aires)

1. air (mixture of gases)

Variant of air.

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

1. appearance; semblance

• debonaire
• deputaire

aire m (oblique and nominative feminine singular aire)

2. alternative form of aigre

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

• aaer, aar, aer, aere, ayre, ayro, eer, haar, har

Inherited from Latin āēr, borrowed from Ancient Greek ᾱ̓ήρ (āḗr), from Proto-Hellenic *auhḗr, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewsér, from *h₂ews-. Cognate with Old Spanish ayre.

aire m (plural aires)

1. air (wind)
   • 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.

• Fala: airi
• Galician: aire, ar
• Portuguese: ar

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “aire”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “aire”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “eer”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Cunha, Antônio Geraldo da (2020–2026), “ar”, in Vocabulário histórico-cronológico do português medieval [Historical and chronological vocabulary of Medieval Portuguese] (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa

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-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.ɾʲe/

aire m (genitive airech, nominative plural airig)

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

• airegdae
• frithaire

• 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

aire m (plural aires)

1. alternative spelling of ayre

• Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946), “aire”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume I, Chapel Hill, page 20

• Hyphenation: ai‧re

aire

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

aire (plural aires)

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

• “aire, n.²”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

aire (plural aires)

1. Insular Scots form of air (“beach”)

• “aire, n.⁴”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

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

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

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!

• (attention, regard): suim

• cuir an aire
• fa-near

• IPA^(key): /ˈaiɾe/ [ˈai̯.ɾe]

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• Rhymes: -aiɾe
• Syllabification: ai‧re

Inherited from Old Spanish aire, ayre, from Latin āēr, from Ancient Greek ἀήρ (aḗr).

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)

   Se da un aire a tu padre ― He resembles your father

6. (usually in the plural) air (pretension; snobbishness)

   darse aires ― to put on airs

7. air (a sense of poise, graciousness, or quality)
8. ellipsis of aire acondicionado
9. (Latin America) A type of muscle pain.
   • 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 306:

     El azufre entero tiene la propiedad de «sacar el aire», nombre vulgar de los dolores neurálgicos, especialmente los de la cara. Se usa en estos casos aplicando un pedazo de azufre sobre la parte enferma. Al cabo de algunos momentos, unos crujimientos se dejan oir en el interior del azufre: es el aire extraído por éste, que sale.

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   • 2024 November 17, @IvanRiquelme22, Twitter‎^[2]:

     Creo que tengo aire en la espalda lpm como necesito masajes 🙏

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• → Basque: aire
• → Central Bikol: ayre
• → Tagalog: ere

aire

1. get out; begone; away!

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

aire m (plural aires)

1. solenodon

   Synonym: almiquí

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

• “aire”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025