boreas

See also: Boreas and Bóreas

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Βορέᾱς (Boréās).

Noun

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

Synonyms

• northerly

Antonyms

• auster
• southerly

Related terms

• aurora borealis

Translations

Translations

• Catalan: bòrees (ca) m
• French: borée (fr) m, aquilon (fr) m
• German: Nordwind (de) m
• Spanish: bóreas (es)

References

• “boreas”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• sea orb

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Βορέᾱς (Boréās).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈbɔ.re.aːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈbɔː.re.as]

Noun

boreās m (genitive boreae); first declension

1. north wind

   Synonyms: (Late Latin) borrās, aquilō, septentriō

   Antonym: auster

2. north (compass direction)
   • c. 347 CE – 420 CE, Hieronymus, Vulgate Num.8.2:

     Loquere Aaron, et dices ad eum: Cum posueris septem lucernas, candelabrum in australi parte erigatur. Hoc igitur praecipe ut lucernae contra boream e regione respiciant ad mensam panum propositionis, contra eam partem, quam candelabrum respicit, lucere debebunt

     Speak to Aaron, and thou shalt say to him: When thou shalt place the seven lamps, let the candlestick be set up on the south side. Give orders therefore that the lamps look over against the north, towards the table of the leaves of proposition, over against that part shall they give light, towards which the candlestick looketh. (Douay-Rheims translation)

Declension

First-declension noun (masculine, Greek-type, nominative singular in -ās).

	singular	plural
nominative	boreās	boreae
genitive	boreae	boreārum
dative	boreae	boreīs
accusative	boreān boream	boreās
ablative	boreā	boreīs
vocative	boreā	boreae

Coordinate terms

compass points:  ^[edit]

	septentriō boreās
occidēns occāsus		oriēns eurus
	merīdiēs auster

Derived terms

• boreālis

Descendants

• Balkano-Romance:
  • >? Romanian: bură
• Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Dalmatian: bura
  • Istriot: bora
  • Italian: bora, boria
    • → English: bora
  • Venetan: bura
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: boira
  • Old French: boire
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: boira
    • → Spanish: boira
  • Galician: boira
• Borrowings:
  • → English: Boreas
  • → Italian: borea
  • → Middle French: borée
    • French: borée
  • → Spanish: bóreas

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “boreas”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 1: A–B, page 441

Further reading

• “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