boreas

See also: Boreas and Bóreas

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Βορέᾱς (Boréās).

Noun

boreas (plural boreases)

1. (obsolete, poetic) The north wind.
   • 1806 April 12, The Companion and Weekly Miscellany 1806-04-12: Vol 2 Iss 24‎^[1]:

     Whether it is most prudent to expose / Our lovely forms to keenest blasts of boreas

Synonyms

• northerly

Antonyms

• auster
• southerly

Related terms

• aurora borealis

Translations

Translations

• Catalan: bòrees (ca) m
• French: borée (fr) m, aquilon (fr) m
• German: Nordwind (de) m
• Spanish: bóreas (es)

References

• “boreas”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• sea orb

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Βορέᾱς (Boréās).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈbo.re.aːs/, [ˈbɔreäːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbo.re.as/, [ˈbɔːreäs]

Noun

boreās m (genitive boreae); first declension

1. north wind

   Synonyms: (Late Latin) borrās, aquilō, septentriō

   Antonym: auster

2. north (compass direction)

Declension

First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ās).

	singular	plural
nominative	boreās	boreae
genitive	boreae	boreārum
dative	boreae	boreīs
accusative	boreān	boreās
ablative	boreā	boreīs
vocative	boreā	boreae

Derived terms

• boreālis

Descendants

• Inherited:
  • Aragonese: boira
    • → Spanish: boira
  • Catalan: boira
  • Dalmatian: bura
  • Galician: boira
  • Old French: boire
  • Romanian: bură
  • Venetan: bura
• Borrowed:
  • → English: Boreas
  • → Italian: borea; boria?
  • → Middle French: borée
    • French: borée
  • → Spanish: bóreas

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “boreas”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 1: A–B, page 441

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^[2]
• “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