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Βορέας

First declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: Βορέας

Structure: Βορε (Stem) + ᾱς (Ending)

Etym.: Prob. from o)/ros, vo/ros, wind from the mountains.

Sense

  1. the North wind, the North, northward

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative Βορέας Βορέᾱ Βορέαι
Genitive Βορέου Βορέαιν Βορεῶν
Dative Βορέᾱͅ Βορέαιν Βορέαις
Accusative Βορέᾱν Βορέᾱ Βορέᾱς
Vocative Βορέᾱ Βορέᾱ Βορέαι

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἐκτείνων βορέαν ἐπ̓ οὐδέν, κρεμάζων γῆν ἐπὶ οὐδενόσ. (Septuagint, Liber Iob 26:7)
  • τῶν πλεόντων δὲ ὁ μὲν βορέαν εὔχετο ἐπιπνεῦσαι, ὁ δὲ νότον, ὁ δὲ γεωργὸσ ᾔτει ὑετόν, ὁ δὲ γναφεὺσ ἥλιον. (Lucian, Icaromenippus, (no name) 25:8)
  • ἐνθεὶσ ἂν ἐσ τίφην ἀνὴρ Βοιώτιοσ ἅψασ ἄν ἐσπέμψειεν ἐσ τὸ νεώριον δι’ ὑδρορρόασ, βορέαν ἐπιτηρήσασ μέγαν. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Episode 1:31)
  • ὁ ἥλιοσ τὸν βορέαν ἐνίκησεν. (Plutarch, Conjugalia Praecepta, chapter, section 121)
  • τὸν βορέαν δὲ πῶσ; (Plutarch, De exilio, section 44)

Synonyms

  1. the North wind

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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