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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin eurus, from Ancient Greek εὖρος (eûros).
Noun
eurus (plural euruses)
- (obsolete, poetic) The east wind
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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek εὖρος (eûros).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
eurus m (genitive eurī); second declension
- (graecism) the southeast wind
- the east wind
- (figurative) the East
Declension
Second-declension noun.
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References
- ^ “euro 1” in: Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, →ISBN
Further reading
- “eurus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “eurus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- eurus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “eurus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers