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名詞

boreas (plural boreases)

1. (obsolete, poetic) The north wind.
   • 1806 April 12, The Companion and Weekly Miscellany 1806-04-12: Vol 2 Iss 24‎:

     Whether it is most prudent to expose / Our lovely forms to keenest blasts of boreas

同意語

• northerly

反意語

• auster
• southerly

関連する語

• aurora borealis

参照

• “boreas”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• sea orb

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈbɔ.re.aːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈbɔː.re.as]

名詞

boreās m (genitive boreae); first declension

1. north wind

   Synonyms: (Late Latin) borrās, aquilō, septentriō

   Antonym: auster

2. north (compass direction)
   • c. 347 CE – 420 CE, Hieronymus, Vulgate Num.8.2:

     Loquere Aaron, et dices ad eum: Cum posueris septem lucernas, candelabrum in australi parte erigatur. Hoc igitur praecipe ut lucernae contra boream e regione respiciant ad mensam panum propositionis, contra eam partem, quam candelabrum respicit, lucere debebunt

     Speak to Aaron, and thou shalt say to him: When thou shalt place the seven lamps, let the candlestick be set up on the south side. Give orders therefore that the lamps look over against the north, towards the table of the leaves of proposition, over against that part shall they give light, towards which the candlestick looketh. (Douay-Rheims translation)

語形変化

First-declension noun (masculine, Greek-type, nominative singular in -ās).

等位語

compass points:

	septentriō boreās
occidēns occāsus		oriēns eurus
	merīdiēs auster

派生語

• boreālis

派生した語

参照

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “boreas”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 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
• “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