boreas
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Βορέᾱς (Boréās).
Noun[edit]
boreas (plural boreases)
- (obsolete, poetic) The north wind.
- 1806 April 12, The Companion and Weekly Miscellany 1806-04-12: Vol 2 Iss 24[1]:
- Whether it is most prudent to expose / Our lovely forms to keenest blasts of boreas
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References[edit]
- “boreas”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ancient Greek Βορέᾱς (Boréās).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈbo.re.aːs/, [ˈbɔreäːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈbo.re.as/, [ˈbɔːreäs]
Noun[edit]
boreās m (genitive boreae); first declension
- north wind
- Synonyms: (Late Latin) borrās, aquilō, septentriō
- Antonym: auster
- north (compass direction)
Declension[edit]
First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ās).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | boreās | boreae |
Genitive | boreae | boreārum |
Dative | boreae | boreīs |
Accusative | boreān | boreās |
Ablative | boreā | boreīs |
Vocative | boreā | boreae |
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References[edit]
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “boreas”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 1: A–B, page 441
Further reading[edit]
- “boreas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “boreas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “boreas”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia[2]
- “boreas”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “boreas”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
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