aureole

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English aureole, from Old French aureole, from Medieval Latin aureola (corona) (“golden (crown)”). Doublet of oriole. === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɔː.ɹiː.əʊl/ (US) IPA(key): /ˈɔɹ.i.oʊl/ Homophone: oriole === Noun === aureole (plural aureoles) A circle of light or halo around the head of a deity or a saint. (by extension) Any luminous or colored ring that encircles something. (astronomy) A corona. (geology) A ring around an igneous intrusion. 1990, Roger Mason, Petrology of the Metamorphic Rocks, Chapter 3: "Metamorphism associated with igneous intrusions": Cleavage and folds are imprinted are overprinted by the contact metamorphic aureole, indicating that they belong to a pre-intrustive episode of rock deformation and accompanying regional deformation. (theology) Alternative form of aureola (“increment to blessedness”). ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== aureolin oriole ==== Translations ==== === Verb === aureole (third-person singular simple present aureoles, present participle aureoling, simple past and past participle aureoled) (transitive) To surround with, or as if with, a halo. === References === “aureole”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present. "aureole" in the Wordsmyth Dictionary-Thesaurus (Wordsmyth, 2002) "aureole" in Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary (Cambridge University Press, 2007) “aureole”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022. Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989) Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary (1987-1996) == Italian == === Noun === aureole f plural of aureola == Latin == === Adjective === aureole vocative masculine singular of aureolus == Portuguese == === Verb === aureole inflection of aureolar: first/third-person singular present subjunctive third-person singular imperative == Spanish == === Verb === aureole inflection of aureolar: first/third-person singular present subjunctive third-person singular imperative