boreas

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek Βορέᾱς (Boréās). === Noun === boreas (plural boreases) (obsolete, poetic) The north wind. ==== Synonyms ==== northerly ==== Antonyms ==== auster southerly ==== Related terms ==== aurora borealis ==== Translations ==== === References === “boreas”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. === Anagrams === sea orb == Latin == === Etymology === From Ancient Greek Βορέᾱς (Boréās). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈbɔ.re.aːs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈbɔː.re.as] === Noun === boreās m (genitive boreae); first declension north wind Synonyms: (Late Latin) borrās, aquilō, septentriō Antonym: auster north (compass direction) ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun (masculine, Greek-type, nominative singular in -ās). ==== Coordinate terms ==== compass points: [edit] ==== Derived terms ==== boreālis ==== Descendants ==== === References === Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “boreas”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 1: A–B, page 441 === Further reading === “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