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English
Etymology
From Latin etesius (“annual”), from Ancient Greek ἐτήσιος (etḗsios, “annual”), from ἔτος (étos, “year”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɪˈtiːzɪən/, /ɪˈtiːʒən/
Adjective
etesian (not comparable)
- Pertaining to a dry north wind which blows in the eastern Mediterranean.
- , II.ii.3:
- Is it from those etesian winds, or melting of snow in the mountains under the Equator , or from those great dropping perpetual showers ?
1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 77:[…] Dixon, assailed without mercy by his Sensorium, almost in a swoon, finds himself, on Nights of Cloud, less and less able to forgo emerging at dusk, cloaked against the Etesian wind, and making directly for the prohibited parts of town.
Translations
pertaining to a specific eastern Mediterranean wind
Noun
etesian (plural etesians)
- A dry north wind which blows in the eastern Mediterranean.
1671, R Bohun, “”, in A Discourse Concerning the Origine and Properties of VVind. , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by W. Hall for Tho Bowman, →OCLC, pages 118–119:[...] I have in England for ſome years paſt, kept by me an exact table, or Ephemeris both of the Vernall, and Summer Eteſians; but found the VVinds no leſſe Variable in thoſe Months, then at other Seaſons.
Translations
dry north wind which blows in the eastern Mediterranean
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