aerian

== English == === Alternative forms === aërian === Etymology === From the French aérien, from the Old French aerïen, from the Classical Latin āerius; compare aerial. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) enPR: āîʹrĭən, âʹrĭən, IPA(key): /eɪˈɪəɹɪən/, /ˈɛːɹɪən/ (US) enPR: ā'îʹrēən, âʹrēən, IPA(key): /ˌeɪˈɪɹi.ən/, /ˈɛɹi.ən/ === Adjective === aerian (not comparable) (rare) Of or belonging to the atmosphere or to the air; aerial. 2001, Allen S. Weiss, translating an extract from page 113 of the 1979 Union Générale d’Éditions republication of Marcel Schwob’s “La Machine à Parler” (a short story which first appeared in his 1892 collection Le Roi au Masque d’Or), for “Narcissistic Machines and Erotic Prostheses”, essay 2 (occupying pages 51–74) of Camera Obscura, Camera Lucida: Essays in Honor of Annette Michelson (2003, Amsterdam University Press, →ISBN, edited by Richard Allen and Malcolm Turvey; the quotation is from page 68 of Camera Obscura The voice, which is the aerian sign of thought, whence of the soul, which instructs, preaches, exhorts, prays, praises, loves, through which the entire being is manifested in life, nearly palpable by the blind, impossible to describe because it is too undulating and diverse, in fact too alive and incarnate in too many sonorous forms, the voice that Théophile Gautier gave up trying to put into words because it is neither soft, nor dry, nor hot, nor cold, nor colorless, nor colorful, but has something of all that in another domain, that voice that one cannot touch, that one cannot see, that most immaterial of terrestrial things, that which most resembles a spirit, is stolen on the fly by science with a stylet and buried in small holes on a turning cylinder. === References === “aerian, a.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary (second edition, 1989) “aerian, adj.²” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary (draft revision, June 2008) === Anagrams === Ariane == Romanian == === Etymology === Borrowed from French aérien. === Adjective === aerian m or n (feminine singular aeriană, masculine plural aerieni, feminine/neuter plural aeriene) aerial ==== Declension ====