etesiae

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἐτησίαι (etēsíai).

Noun

etēsiae f pl (genitive etēsiārum); first declension

  1. the Etesian winds (N-W winds that blow annually in the Aegean Sea during the dog-days for forty days)
    • c. 48 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Civili 3.107:
      Ipse enim necessario etesiis tenebatur, qui navigantibus Alexandria flant adversissimi venti.
      He (Caesar) was necessarily detained by the Etesian winds, winds that are most unbecomming for those who travel from the shores of Alexandria.

Declension

First-declension noun, plural only.

plural
nominative etēsiae
genitive etēsiārum
dative etēsiīs
accusative etēsiās
ablative etēsiīs
vocative etēsiae

References

  • “etesiae”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “etesiae”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • etesiae in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “etesiae”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
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