boreas

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See also: Boreas and Bóreas

English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ancient Greek Βορέᾱς (Boréās).

Noun

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boreas (plural boreases)

  1. (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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Latin

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Etymology

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From Ancient Greek Βορέᾱς (Boréās).

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Noun

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boreās m (genitive boreae); first declension

  1. north wind
    Synonyms: (Late Latin) borrās, aquilō, septentriō
    Antonym: auster
  2. north (compass direction)

Declension

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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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Descendants

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  • Inherited:
    • Aragonese: boira
    • Catalan: boira
    • Dalmatian: bura
    • Galician: boira
    • Old French: boire
    • Romanian: bură
    • Venetan: bura
  • Borrowed:

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Further reading

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  • 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