boreas

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Βορέᾱς (Boréās).

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

• northerly

• auster
• southerly

• aurora borealis

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

• sea orb

From Ancient Greek Βορέᾱς (Boréās).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈbɔ.re.aːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈbɔː.re.as]

boreās m (genitive boreae); first declension

1. north wind

   Synonyms: (Late Latin) borrās, aquilō, septentriō

   Antonym: auster

2. north (compass direction)

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

compass points:  ^[edit]

• boreālis

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

• “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