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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀργέστης (argéstēs).
Noun
argestēs m (genitive argestae); first declension
- (graecism) wind from the west-northwest (according to Pliny the Elder) or west-southwest (according to Vitruvius)
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References
- “argestes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “argestes”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- argestes in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- argestes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.