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Aurora. Spanish given name. The province was named in honor of Aurora Quezon, wife of president Manuel Quezon, who in turn was born in the town of Baler, now the province's capital; Aurora Quezon herself was also born in Baler. Aurora itself is the Latin word for "dawn," [12] this is also a Spanish loanword from Latin itself. Basilan
Aurora (Spanish given name. Named in honor of Philippine First Lady Aurora Quezon) Camarines Norte and Camarines Sur (Camarines is the plural form of the Spanish word camarín which means "boat sheds".
Aurora is a feminine given name, originating from the name of the ancient Roman goddess of dawn Aurora. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Her tears were said to turn into the morning dew . Each morning she traveled in her chariot across the sky from east to west, proclaiming renewal with the rising of the sun . [ 3 ]
Spanish has two grammatical numbers: singular and plural. [27] The singular form is the lemma, and the plural is the marked form. [28] Whether a noun is singular or plural generally depends on the referent of the noun, with singular nouns typically referring to one being and plural nouns to multiple.
In Spanish, adjectives agree with what they refer to in terms of both plurality (singular/plural) and grammatical gender (masculine/feminine). For example, taza (cup) is feminine, so "the red cup" is la taza roj a , but vaso (glass) is masculine, so "the red glass" is el vaso roj o .
When the final consonants in these endings are dropped, the result is -u for both; this became -o in Spanish. However, a word like Latin iste had the neuter istud; the former became este and the latter became esto in Spanish. Another sign that Spanish once had a grammatical neuter exists in words that derive from neuter plurals.
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For example, a Latinate word might enter English by way of Old French, but enter Spanish directly from Latin. Such differences can introduce changes in spelling and meaning. Although most of the cognates have at least one meaning shared by English and Spanish, they can have other meanings that are not shared.