Boreasn.

/ˈbɔːrɪas/

Forms: Also Middle English Borias.

Etymology: < Latin Boreas, < Greek βορέας north wind.

The north-wind; the god of the north-wind. Now only in Mythology and in poetic or humorous personification.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > deity > classical deity > [noun] > Boreas or Boread

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Boread1831

the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > wind with reference to direction > winds from specific compass points > north

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1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) xi. iii. 388 Borias the Northern wynde arysyth.

?a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Sheep & Dog l. 1288 in Poems (1981) 52 Boreas with blastis bitterlie.

1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Feb. 226 The blustring Boreas did encroche.

1635 F. Quarles Emblemes i. ii. 10 Blust'ring Boreas blowes the boyling Tide.

1715 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad I. ii. 1025 Boreas beats the hoarse-resounding Shores.

1863 M. Howitt tr. F. Bremer Greece & Greeks II. xvii. 193 Boreas had decided otherwise, and blew up against us a terrible north wind.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	boreas
释义	Boreasn. /ˈbɔːrɪas/ Forms: Also Middle English Borias. Etymology: < Latin Boreas, < Greek βορέας north wind. The north-wind; the god of the north-wind. Now only in Mythology and in poetic or humorous personification. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > classical deity > [noun] > Boreas or Boread Boreas1398 Boread1831 the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > wind with reference to direction > winds from specific compass points > north north windeOE aquilonc1374 northa1382 Boreas1398 breeze1589 tramontane1615 galern1693 northern1777 norther1827 northerly1895 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) xi. iii. 388 Borias the Northern wynde arysyth. ?a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Sheep & Dog l. 1288 in Poems (1981) 52 Boreas with blastis bitterlie. 1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Feb. 226 The blustring Boreas did encroche. 1635 F. Quarles Emblemes i. ii. 10 Blust'ring Boreas blowes the boyling Tide. 1715 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad I. ii. 1025 Boreas beats the hoarse-resounding Shores. 1863 M. Howitt tr. F. Bremer Greece & Greeks II. xvii. 193 Boreas had decided otherwise, and blew up against us a terrible north wind. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1398
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