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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

  • φωνὴ βροντῆσ αὐτοῦ ὠδίνησε γῆν καὶ καταιγὶσ Βορέου καὶ συστροφὴ πνεύματοσ. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 43:17)
  • ἐξαιρέτωσ δὲ τὴν Δήμητροσ πλάνην καὶ Κόρησ εὑρ́εσιν καὶ Κελεοῦ ξενίαν καὶ Τριπτολέμου γεωργίαν καὶ Ἰκαρίου ἀμπελουργίαν καὶ τὴν Ἠριγόνησ συμφοράν, καὶ ὅσα περὶ Βορέου καὶ ὅσα περὶ Ὠρειθυίασ καὶ Θησέωσ καὶ Αἰγέωσ. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 40:2)
  • πώεα δ’ οὔ τι, οὕνεκ’ ἐπηεταναὶ τρίχεσ αὐτῶν, οὐ διάησιν ἲσ ἀνέμου Βορέου· (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 59:8)
  • ὅστε ἀρυσάμενοσ ποταμῶν ἄπο αἰεναόντων, ὑψοῦ ὑπὲρ γαίησ ἀρθεὶσ ἀνέμοιο θυέλλῃ ἄλλοτε μέν θ’ ὑεί ποτὶ ἕσπερον, ἄλλοτ’ ἀήσι πυκνὰ Θρηικίου Βορέου νέφεα κλονέοντοσ. (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 61:8)
  • ὃσ δ’ ἂν οὖν ταῦτα καταγέλαστα ὄντα μὴ οἰήται ἀληθῆ εἶναι, ἀλλ’ ἐμφρόνωσ ἐξετάζων αὐτὰ Κοροίβου τινὸσ ἢ Μαργίτου νομίζῃ τὸ πείθεσθαι ἢ Τριπτόλεμον ἐλάσαι διὰ τοῦ ἀέροσ ἐπὶ δρακόντων ὑποπτέρων ἢ Πᾶνα ἥκειν ἐξ Ἀρκαδίασ σύμμαχον εἰσ Μαραθῶνα ἢ Ὠρείθυιαν ’ὑπὸ τοῦ Βορέου ἁρπασθῆναι, ἀσεβὴσ οὗτόσ γε καὶ ἀνόητοσ αὐτοῖσ ἔδοξεν οὕτω προδήλοισ καὶ ἀληθέσι πράγμασιν ἀπιστῶν εἰσ τοσοῦτον ἐπικρατεῖ τὸ ψεῦδοσ. (Lucian, Philopsuedes sive incredulus, (no name) 3:3)

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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