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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Βορέᾱς (Boréās).
Noun
boreas (plural boreases)
- (obsolete, poetic) The north wind.
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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Βορέᾱς (Boréās).
Pronunciation
Noun
boreās m (genitive boreae); first declension
- north wind
- Synonyms: (Late Latin) borrās, aquilō, septentriō
- Antonym: auster
- north (compass direction)
Declension
First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ās).
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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
- “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