boreas

See also: Boreas and Bóreas

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Βορέᾱς (Boréās)

Noun

boreas (plural boreases)

  1. (obsolete, poetic) The north wind.

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References

  • boreas in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Βορέᾱς (Boréās)

Noun

boreās m (genitive boreae); first declension

  1. north wind

Inflection

First declension, masculine Greek type with nominative singular in -ās.

Case Singular Plural
nominative boreās boreae
genitive boreae boreārum
dative boreae boreīs
accusative boreān boreās
ablative boreā boreīs
vocative boreā boreae

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References

  • 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 Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
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