etesian
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin etesius (“annual”), from Ancient Greek ἐτήσιος (etēsios, “annual”), from ἔτος (etos, “year”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA: /ɪˈtiːzɪən/, /ɪˈtiːʒən/
Adjective[edit]
etesian (not comparable)
- Pertaining to a dry north wind which blows in the eastern Mediterranean.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.ii.3:
- Is it from those etesian winds, or melting of snow in the mountains under the Equator [...], or from those great dropping perpetual showers [...]?
- 1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon:
- Dixon, assailed without mercy by his Sensorium, almost in a swoon, finds himself, on Nights of Cloud, less and less able to forgo emerging at dusk, cloaked against the Etesian wind, and making directly for the prohibited parts of town.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.ii.3:
Translations[edit]
Noun[edit]
etesian (plural etesians)
- A dry north wind which blows in the eastern Mediterranean.
