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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἐτησίαι (etēsíai).
Noun
etēsiae f pl (genitive etēsiārum); first declension
- the Etesian winds (N-W winds that blow annually in the Aegean Sea during the dog-days for forty days)
c. 48 BCE,
Julius Caesar,
Commentarii de Bello Civili 3.107:
- Ipse enim necessario etesiis tenebatur, qui navigantibus Alexandria flant adversissimi venti.
- He (Caesar) was necessarily detained by the Etesian winds, winds that are most unbecomming for those who travel from the shores of Alexandria.
Declension
First-declension noun, plural only.
References
- “etesiae”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “etesiae”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- etesiae in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “etesiae”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers