boreas

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Βορέᾱς (Boréās).

boreas (plural boreases)

1. (obsolete, poetic) The north wind.

• northerly

• auster
• southerly

• aurora borealis

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

• sea orb

From Ancient Greek Βορέᾱς (Boréās).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbo.re.aːs/, [ˈbɔreäːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbo.re.as/, [ˈbɔːreäs]

boreās m (genitive boreae); first declension

1. north wind

   Synonyms: (Late Latin) borrās, aquilō, septentriō

   Antonym: auster

2. north (compass direction)

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

• boreālis

• Inherited:
  • Aragonese: boira
  • Catalan: boira
  • Dalmatian: bura
  • Galician: boira
  • Old French: boire
  • Romanian: bură
  • Venetian: bura
• Borrowed:
  • → English: Boreas
  • → Italian: borea; boria?
  • → Middle French: borée
    • French: borée

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

• “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
• “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