Aquilon

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin aquilo, aquilonis.

Proper noun

Aquilon

1. The Roman god of the North Wind, equivalent to the Greek god Boreas.
2. The north wind personified.
   • c. 1380 Geoffrey Chaucer (translator), Boece, Book 2, in The Workes of Geffray Chaucer, London: William Bonham, 1542,^[1]

     Ofte the see is cleare and calme with mouynge floudes, and ofte the horryble wynde Aquilon moueth boylynge tempestes, and ouerwhelueth the see.

   • 1590, Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine, Act III, Scene 2,^[2]

     Auster and Aquilon with winged Steads

     All sweating, tilt about the watery heauens,

     With shiuering speares enforcing thunderclaps.

   • c. 1601 William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act IV, Scene 5,^[3]

     Thou, trumpet, there’s my purse.

     Now crack thy lungs, and split thy brazen pipe:

     Blow, villain, till thy sphered bias cheek

     Outswell the colic of puff’d Aquilon:

See also

• Venti