boreas

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Βορέᾱς (Boréās)

boreas (plural boreases)

1. (obsolete, poetic) The north wind.

• northerly

• auster
• southerly

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

From Ancient Greek Βορέᾱς (Boréās)

boreās m (genitive boreae); first declension

1. north wind
2. north (compass direction)

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

• (north wind): septentriō

• (north wind): auster, merīdiēs

• boreālis

• 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