boreas

See also: Boreas and Bóreas

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Βορέᾱς (Boréās)

Noun

boreas (plural boreases)

1. (obsolete, poetic) The north wind.

Synonyms

• northerly

Antonyms

• auster
• southerly

Translations

Translations

• French: borée (fr) m, aquilon (fr) m
• German: Nordwind (de) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Spanish: bóreas (es)

References

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

Anagrams

• sea orb

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Βορέᾱς (Boréās)

Noun

boreās m (genitive boreae); first declension

1. north wind
2. north (compass direction)

Declension

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

Synonyms

• (north wind): septentriō

Antonyms

• (north wind): auster, merīdiēs

Derived terms

• boreālis

Descendants

• Catalan: boira
• Dalmatian: bura
• English: Boreas
• French: borée

• Galician: boira
• Italian: borea, boria
• Romanian: bură
• Spanish: borrasca
• Venetian: bura

References

• “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^[1]
• “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