mistral

See also: Mistral

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French mistral, from Occitan. Doublet of magistral.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɪˈstɹɑːl/

• Audio (Southern England)

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Noun

mistral (plural mistrals)

1. A strong cold north-west wind in southern France and the Mediterranean.
   • 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 48”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:

     I saw him, the sea gray under the mistral and foam-flecked, watching the vanishing coast of France, which he was destined never to see again; and I thought there was something gallant in his bearing and dauntless in his soul.

   • 1973, Patrick O'Brian, HMS Surprise:

     The mistral had been blowing for three days now and the sea showed more white than blue

Translations

strong cold north-west wind in southern France and the Mediterranean

• Catalan: mestral (ca) m
• Corsican: maestral m
• French: mistral (fr) m
• German: Mistral (de) m
• Greek: μαΐστρος (el) m (maḯstros)
• Hungarian: misztrál (hu)
• Italian: maestrale (it) m
• Malay: mistral
• Maltese: majjistral m
• Portuguese: mistral (pt) m
• Russian: мистра́ль (ru) m (mistrálʹ)
• Sardinian: maistràle m
• Spanish: mistral m
• Ukrainian: містра́ль m (mistrálʹ)

Further reading

• mistral (wind) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Czech

Noun

mistral m inan

1. mistral (wind)

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

• mistral in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• mistral in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Occitan maestral (whence Occitan mistral) from Late Latin magistrālis, from Latin magister. Doublet of magistral.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mis.tʁal/

• Audio

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• Homophone: mistrals
• Hyphenation: mis‧tral

Noun

mistral m (plural mistrals)

1. (wind) mistral
   • 1963, “La Madrague”, Jean-Max Rivière (lyrics), Gérard Bourgeois (music), performed by Brigitte Bardot:

     Le mistral va s’habituer / A courir sans les voiliers

     The mistral will get used / To blowing with no sails to fill

Further reading

• “mistral”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French mistral.

Noun

mistral n (uncountable)

1. mistral

Declension

declension of mistral (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) mistral	mistralul
genitive/dative	(unui) mistral	mistralului
vocative	mistralule

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Occitan mistral, from Latin magistrālis. Doublet of maestral and magistral.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /misˈtɾal/ [misˈt̪ɾal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: mis‧tral

Noun

mistral m (plural mistrales)

1. mistral (cold wind from the Atlantic)

Further reading

• “mistral”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014