Aquilon
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin aquilo, aquilonis.
Proper noun
Aquilon
- The Roman god of the North Wind, equivalent to the Greek god Boreas.
- 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:
- c. 1380 Geoffrey Chaucer (translator), Boece, Book 2, in The Workes of Geffray Chaucer, London: William Bonham, 1542,[1]