Βορέας

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• Βορρᾶς (Borrhâs) — Attic, Koine
• Βορέης (Boréēs), Βορῆς (Borês) — Ionic
• Βορίαις (Boríais) — Aeolic

Etymology

Named as the god of the north wind, perhaps related to Proto-Slavic *gora (“mountain, hill, mountainous elevation covered in forests”).

Pronunciation

Noun

Βορέᾱς • (Boréās) m (genitive Βορέᾱ); first declension (Old Attic, Doric)

1. the north wind, personified as Boreas
2. the North

Inflection

Derived terms

• βόρειος (bóreios)

Descendants

• Greek: Βορέας (Voréas), βοριάς m (voriás), βορράς m (vorrás)
• → Latin: Boreas
• → Middle Armenian: բօրէաս (bōrēas)
• → Old Armenian: վոռէ (voṙē)
• → Old Georgian: ბორიაჲ (boriay, “northern wind”)
  • Georgian: ბორია (boria, “cold, northern breeze”), ბორიო (borio)
• → Ottoman Turkish: پویراز (poyraz)
• → Mingrelian: ბორია (boria, “wind”)

References

• “Βορέας”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Βορέας”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Βορέας in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “Βορέας”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,004

Further reading

• Boreas on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Greek

Alternative forms

• Βορρέας m (Vorréas)

Proper noun

Βορέας • (Voréas) m

1. (Greek mythology) Boreas, the god of the North Wind

Declension

Related terms

• βόρειος m (vóreios, “north wind”)
• βοριάς m (voriás, “north wind”)

Further reading

• Βορέας on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el