mistral

Borrowed from Middle French mistral, from Occitan. Doublet of magistral.

• IPA^(key): /mɪˈstɹɑːl/

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mistral (plural mistrals)

1. A strong cold north-west wind in southern France and the Mediterranean.
   • 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 48”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:

     I saw him, the sea gray under the mistral and foam-flecked, watching the vanishing coast of France, which he was destined never to see again; and I thought there was something gallant in his bearing and dauntless in his soul.

   • 1973, Patrick O'Brian, HMS Surprise:

     The mistral had been blowing for three days now and the sea showed more white than blue

• mistral (wind) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɪstral]

mistral m inan

1. mistral (wind)

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• “mistral”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “mistral”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Borrowed from Old Occitan maestral (whence Occitan mistral) from Late Latin magistrālis, from Latin magister. Doublet of magistral.

• IPA^(key): /mis.tʁal/

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• Homophone: mistrals
• Hyphenation: mis‧tral

mistral m (plural mistrals)

1. (wind) mistral
   • 1963, “La Madrague”, Jean-Max Rivière (lyrics), Gérard Bourgeois (music), performed by Brigitte Bardot:

     Le mistral va s'habituer / A courir sans les voiliers

     The mistral will get used / To blowing with no sails to fill

• “mistral”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from French mistral.

mistral n (uncountable)

1. mistral

Borrowed from Occitan mistral, from Latin magistrālis. Doublet of maestral and magistral.

• IPA^(key): /misˈtɾal/ [misˈt̪ɾal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: mis‧tral

mistral m (plural mistrales)

1. mistral (cold wind from the Atlantic)

• “mistral”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024