Boreas

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek Βορέᾱς (Boréās). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈbɔːɹɪəs/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈbɔɹɪəs/ Hyphenation: Bo‧re‧as The Boreas River in northern New York is pronounced 'Borees' by the locals with two syllables. === Proper noun === Boreas (Greek mythology) The god of the North Wind. (poetic) The north wind personified. 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], The Shepheardes Calender: Conteyning Tvvelue Æglogues Proportionable to the Twelue Monethes. Entitled to the Noble and Vertuous Gentleman most Worthy of all Titles both of Learning and Cheualrie M. Philip Sidney, London: Printed by Hugh Singleton, dwelling in Creede Lane neere vnto Ludgate at the signe of the gylden Tunne, and are there to be solde, OCLC 606515406; republished in Francis J[ames] Child, editor, The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser: The Text Carefully Revised, and Illustrated with Notes, Original and Selected by Francis J. Child: Five Volumes in Three, volume III, Boston, Mass.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company; The Riverside Press, Cambridge, published 1855, OCLC 793557671, page 406, lines 222–228: Now stands the Brere like a lord alone, / Puffed up with pryde and vaine pleasaunce. / But all this glee had no continuaunce: / For eftsones winter gan to approche; / The blustering Boreas did encroche, / And beate upon the solitarie Brere; / For nowe no succoure was seene him nere. ==== Hypernyms ==== Anemoi ==== Coordinate terms ==== Boreas/Septentrio/Aquilon (north), Notus/Auster (south), Eurus/Subsolanus (east), Zephyr/Zephyrus/Favonius (west) ==== Related terms ==== aurora borealis Boreads boreal ==== Translations ==== ==== Further reading ==== Boreas (god) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia === References === Anu Garg (5 September 2015 (last accessed)), “Boreas”, in A.Word.a.Day, Wordsmith.org‎[1], archived from the original on 5 September 2015. “Boreas”, in Webster's Dictionary‎[2], Merriam-Webster, 13 September 2015 (last accessed), archived from the original on 13 September 2015. === Anagrams === sea orb == Latin == === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek Βορέᾱς (Boréās). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈbɔ.re.aːs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈbɔː.re.as] === Proper noun === Boreās m sg (genitive Boreae); first declension Boreas, a deity who was the personification of the north wind ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun (masculine, Greek-type, nominative singular in -ās), singular only. ==== See also ==== boreās