noun · femininethird declension
auris
auris f (genitive auris)
Classical[ˈau̯.rɪs]Ecclesiastical[ˈaːu̯.ris]
№ 366 of the 1,000 commonest wordsMille Verba core vocabulary
Meaning
- feminineear
Quam diu quisquam erit qui te defendere audeat, vives, et vives ita ut nunc vivis, multis meis et firmis praesidiis obsessus ne commovere te contra rem publicam possis. Multorum te etiam oculi et aures non sentientem, sicut adhuc fecerunt, speculabuntur atque custodient.
As long as one person exists who may dare to defend you, you shall live, but you shall live as you do now, surrounded by my many and trusty guards, so that you shall not be able to stir one finger against the republic: many eyes and ears shall still observe and watch you, as they have hitherto done, though you shall not perceive them.63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations:
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
pars capitis, quā audīmus; duās aurēs habēmus.auris -is f — in Mille Verba, Corpus Hūmānum
membrum quō audīmusauris -is (f) — in Evangelium secundum Marcum, ch. 12
pars capitis quā audīmusaurīs -is (f) — in Metamorphoses I, †
Declension
| form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | auris | aurēs ōrēs |
| genitive | auris | aurium ōrium |
| dative | aurī ōrī | auribus ōribus |
| accusative | aurem ōrem | aurēs aurīs, ōrēs |
| ablative | aure aurī, ōre | auribus ōribus |
| vocative | auris | aurēs ōrēs |
Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book
- aures erigere
- to prick up one's ears.
- aures praebere alicui
- to listen to a person.
- oratio in aures influit
- his words find an easy hearing, are listened to with pleasure.
- neque auribus neque oculis satis consto
- I am losing my eyesight and getting deaf.
- oculos (aures, animum) advertere ad aliquid
- to turn one's eyes (ears, attention) towards an object.
- in aurem alicui dicere (insusurrare) aliquid
- to whisper something in a person's ears.
- aures elegantes, teretes, tritae (De Or. 9. 27)
- a fine, practised ear.
- ad aures alicuius (not alicui) pervenire, accidere
- to come to some one's ears.
2 more phrases
- aures alicuius obtundere or simply obtundere (aliquem)
- to din a thing into a person's ears.
- aures claudere, patefacere (e.g. veritati, assentatoribus)
- to turn a deaf ear to, to open one's ears to...
auris (abl., aure, auri), is, f. v. audio.
I. Lit., the ear as the organ of hearing, while auricula is the external ear, τὸ οὖς, Enn. ap. Non. p. 506, 1; Cato, R. R. 157, 16; Lucr. 4, 486; Plaut. Pers. 4, 9, 11; Vulg. Eccl. 1, 8;
v. antestor.—In comic style: Face, sis, vocivas aedīs aurium, make the chambers of your ears vacant, Plaut. Ps. 1, 5, 52; cf. aedes.—Hence (usu. plur., aures): adhibere, to be attentive, to listen to, Plaut. Cas. 2, 8, 41; Cic. Arch. 3, 5: arrigere, Ter. And. 5, 4, 30; Verg. A. 1, 152: erigere, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 3; id. Sull. 11: admovere aurem, Ter. Phorm. 5, 6, 28; Cic. de Or. 2, 36, 153: dare, to lend an ear, listen, id. Att. 1, 4; Sen. Hippol. 413; Val. Fl. 7, 419: dederet, Cic. Arch. 10, 26: applicare, Hor. C. 3, 11, 8; id. C. S. 72: praebere aures, Liv 38, 52, 11; 40, 8, 3: praebuimus longis ambagibus aures, Ov. M. 3, 692; 5, 334; 6, 1; 15, 465; and: praebere aurem (esp. in the signif., to incline the ears in order to hear, to listen to), Ov. M. 7, 821; Plin. Ep. 2, 14, 8; Suet. Calig. 22; Hor. S. 1, 1, 22; Prop. 3, 14, 15; Vulg. Job, 6, 28 al.; so, inclinare aurem, ib. 4 Reg. 19, 16; ib. Psa. 30, 3: auribus accipere, i. e. to hear, Plaut. Trin. 4, 1, 9; Ter. Hec. 3, 3, 3; Lucr. 4, 982; 6, 164; Cic. de Or 1, 50, 218; Ov. M. 10, 62 al.: auribus percipite, Vulg. Judith, 5, 3; ib. Psa. 16, 2: te cupidā captat aure maritus, Cat. 61, 54; so, auribus aëra captat, Verg. A. 3, 514: auribus haurire, Ov. M. 13, 787; 14, 309: bibere aure, Hor. C. 2, 13, 32 al.: obtundere, Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 120: tundere, id. Poen. 1, 3, 25: lacessere, Lucr. 4, 597: tergere, id. 6, 119: allicere, id. 6, 183: ferire, Cic. de Or. 2, 84, 344: implere, Tac. H. 1, 90 et saep.—Particular phrases: in or ad aurem, also in aure, dicere, admonere, etc., to say something in the ear, softly or in secret, to whisper in the ear: in aurem Pontius, Scipio, inquit, vide quid agas, Cic. Fragm. ap. Macr. S. 3, 12; so Hor. S. 1, 9, 9; Mart. 1, 90; Petr. 28, 5: ut Voluptati ministrarent et eam tantum ad aurem admonerent, Cic. Fin. 2, 21, 69: in aure dictare, Juv 11, 59: aurem vellere, to pull, as an admonition: Cynthius aurem Vellit et admonuit, i. e. admonished, reminded, Verg. E. 6, 3; so, pervellere, Sen. Ben. 4, 36; id. Ep. 94: dare or servire auribus, to gratify the ears, to flatter, Treb. ap. Cic. Fam. 12, 16; Caes. B. C. 2, 27: in utramvis or in dextram aurem dormire, to sleep soundly, i. e. to be unconcerned, Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 101 (cf. Menaud. ap. Gell. 2, 23: ̓Επʼ ἀμφοτέραν ... μέλλει καθευδήσειν); Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 122; Plin. Ep. 4, 29: aures alicujus aperire (eccl. Lat., after the Heb.), to open one's ears, i. e. to restore his hearing, Vulg. Marc. 7, 35.—II. Meton.
A.
(a). The hearing, so far as it judges of the euphony of a discourse:
offendent aures, quarum est judicium superbissimum, Cic. Or. 44, 150; so Auct. ad Her. 4, 23, 32: Atticorum aures teretes et religiosae, Cic. Or. 9, 27; so id. Brut. 32, 124; id. Font. 6; Hor. A. P. 387.—(b). Hearers, auditors:
Cum tibi sol tepidus plures admoverit aures, Hor. Ep. 1, 20, 19.—*B. Also, from its shape, the ear of a plough, the mould- or earthboard by which the furrow is widened and the earth turned back, Verg. G. 1, 172; cf. Voss ad h. 1.; Smith, Dict. Antiq., and Pall. 1, 43.
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
auris is, f
2 AV-, the ear (as the organ of hearing): aurīs adhibere, to be attentive: admovere aurem, to listen, T.: tibi plurīs admovere aurīs, bring more hearers, H.: erigere: applicare, H.: praebere aurem, to give attention, listen, O.: auribus accipere, to hear: bibere aure, H.: alqd aure susurrat, i. e. in the ear, O.: in aurem Dicere puero, i. e. aside, H.: ad aurem admonere: in aure dictare, Iu.: Cynthius aurem Vellit (as an admonition), V.: auribus Vari serviunt, flatter, Cs.: in aurem utramvis dormire, to sleep soundly, i. e. be unconcerned, T. — Plur, the ear, critical judgment, taste: offendere aures: elegantes: alcius implere, to satisfy: in Maeci descendat aures, H.—The ear of a plough, earth-board, V.
Origins
From Proto-Italic *auzis, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓws. Cognate with Old English ēare (English ear), Ancient Greek οὖς (oûs), Old Church Slavonic оухо (uxo) (Russian ухо (uxo), Serbo-Croatian uho), Old Irish au, Lithuanian ausi̇̀s, and Albanian vesh.
Descendants
- Englishaur-