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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

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

  • ἄνεμοσ Βορέασ ἐξεγείρει νέφη, πρόσωπον δὲ ἀναιδὲσ γλῶσσαν ἐρεθίζει. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 25:25)
  • Βορέασ σκληρὸσ ἄνεμοσ, ὀνόματι δὲ ἐπιδέξιοσ καλεῖται. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 27:16)
  • ὥστ’ ἐν κυανανθέϊ Θ[ρᾳκὶ ναυβάτασ πόντῳ βορέασ ὑπὸ κύ‐ μασιν δαί̈ζει νυκτὸσ ἀντάσασ, ἀνατ[ελλομένᾳ λῆξεν δὲ σὺν φαεσιμβρότῳ ἀοῖ, στόρεσεν δέ τε πόντον οὐρία· (Bacchylides, , epinicians, ode 13 25:1)
  • "τήμερον παρὰ Σκύθαισ ὑέτω, παρὰ Λίβυσιν ἀστραπτέτω, παρ’ Ἕλλησι νιφέτω, σὺ δὲ ὁ Βορέασ πνεῦσον ἐν Λυδίᾳ, σὺ δὲ ὁ Νότοσ ἡσυχίαν ἄγε, ὁ δὲ Ζέφυροσ τὸν Ἀδρίαν διακυμαινέτω, καὶ τῆσ χαλάζησ ὅσον μέδιμνοι χίλιοι διασκεδασθήτωσαν ὑπὲρ Καππαδοκίασ," ἁπάντων δὲ ἤδη σχεδὸν αὐτῷ διῳκημένων ἀπῄειμεν ἐσ τὸ συμπόσιον δείπνου γὰρ ἤδη καιρὸσ ἦν καί με ὁ Ἑρμῆσ παραλαβὼν κατέκλινε παρὰ τὸν Πᾶνα καὶ τοὺσ Κορύβαντασ καὶ τὸν Ἄττιν καὶ τὸν Σαβάζιον, τοὺσ μετοίκουσ τούτουσ καὶ ἀμφιβόλουσ θεούσ. (Lucian, Icaromenippus, (no name) 26:4)
  • οὔτοι ποτὲ ζῶν τοῦτον ἀποδυθήσομαι, ἐπεὶ μόνοσ μ’ ἔσωσε παρατεταγμένον, ὅθ’ ὁ βορέασ ὁ μέγασ ἐπεστρατεύσατο. (Aristophanes, Wasps, Episode1)
  • σόει νιν βορεὰσ ἐξόπιν πνέουσ’ ἀήτα· (Bacchylides, , dithyrambs, ode 17 5:2)

Synonyms

  1. the North wind

Related

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

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