laura
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See also: Laura and Laurą
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Alternative forms
Etymology
From the Late Latin laura, from Ancient Greek λαύρα (laúra, “lane, path”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈlɔɹə/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈlɔːɹə/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɔːɹə
Noun
laura (plural lauras or laurae)
- (historical, Roman Catholicism) A number of hermitages or cells in the same neighborhood occupied by anchorites who were under the same superior
- 1864, Charles Kingsley, Lecture IX: The Monk a Civilizer: The Roman and the Teuton: A Series of Lectures Delivered Before the University of Cambridge, page 240:
- The solitaries of the Thebaid found that they became selfish wild beasts, or went mad, if they remained alone; and they formed themselves into lauras, 'lanes' of huts, convents, under a common abbot or father.
- (historical, Eastern Orthodox Church) A cluster of cells or caves for hermits, with a church and sometimes a refectory at the centre.
- 1966, E. C. Butler, “Chapter XVIII: Monasticism”, in H. M. Gwatkin, J. P. Whitney, editors, The Cambridge Medieval History, volume 1, page 529:
- There were the cenobia, or monasteries proper, where the life was according to the lines laid down by St Basil; and there were the lauras, wherein a semi-eremitical life was followed, the monks living in separate huts within the enclosure.
Translations
cluster of cells or caves for hermits, with a church and sometimes a refectory at the centre
Anagrams
Adjective
laura
Noun
laura
Numeral
laura
Pronunciation
Verb
laura
- third-person singular past historic of laurer
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈlau̯.ra/, [ˈɫ̪äu̯rä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈlau̯.ra/, [ˈläːu̯rä]
Etymology 1
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Noun
laura f (genitive laurae); first declension
- Egyptian rue (Ruta angustifolia)
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Declension
First-declension noun.
References
- laura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 894/1.
Etymology 2
From the Ancient Greek λαύρα (laúra).
Noun
laura f (genitive laurae); first declension
- (Late Latin) monastery, convent, laura
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- laura in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “Laura” on page 404 of Domenico Magri’s Hierolexicon, ſive Sacrum Dictionarium (editio omnium recentissima, augmented by Stefano Sciugliaga, 1765)
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