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Βορέας

boreas

north wind, north

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Densest 12 of 46 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. βορέας · boreas — Beekes

βορέας, -ov [m.] ‘north wind, north’, also PN (Il.); see Nielsen Class. et Med. 7 (1945): iff. <1E? *¢(0)rH- ‘mountain’> *DIAL Att. (contracted) βορρᾶς, -& (see Scheller 1951: 114), Ion. βορέης, contracted βορῆς, -ἕω, Lesb. βορίαις (1 < ε; at for &). *DER βόρειος, Ion. βορήιος (Chantraine 1933: 52) ‘of the north wind’; fem. also βορε(ιλάς, βορηιάς (A.). Local adverbs: BopénBev, βορρᾶθεν, Boppdbev, etc. Denominative: … — [Beekes, s.v. βορέας, p. 274]

2. βορέας · boreas — Frisk

βορέας, -ov, kontr. βορρᾶς, -ἃ (att.), βορέης, kontr. βορῆς, -ἐω (ion.), βορίαις (lesb.) m. “Νοταν!τηα, Norden’, auch EN (seit Il.); zur Bed. im allg. Nielsen Class. et Mediaeval. 7, 1ff. — Ableitungen: βόρειος, ion. Bognos (zur Bildung Chantraine Formation 52, Schwyzer 468: 3) ‘auf den Nordwind bezüglich, nördlich’; fem. auch fogefı)ac, βορηιάς, vorwiegend als Patronymikon (A.,S. usw.); in dieser Funktion auch … — [Frisk, s.v. βορέας, p. 284]

3. βορέας · boreas — Frisk

βορέας. Zu βορέης am. Versanfang bei Hom. (75 und W195) Wackernagel Unt. 151f. (auch über die Stammbildung), Chantraine Gramm. hom. 1, 103, Shipp Studies 28f. Zu att. βορρᾶς Scheller Oxytonierung 114 m. A.2 u. 3. — -Υπερβόρεοι s. bes. — Eigenartige Etymologie von Whatmough ClassPhil. 52 (1957) 119: eig. „the devouring“, von βορά. — [Frisk, s.v. βορέας, p. 2180]

4. Βορέας · Boreas — LSJ

north wind, Boreas

north wind, personified as Boreas, Od. 5.296, etc.: generally, opp. νότος, Β. καὶ ἀπαρκτίας Arist. Mete. 363b14, cf. Mu. 394b20 (pl.), HA 612b5 (pl.); Β. πνέουσιν ὀρνιθίαι PHib. 1.2-. 59 (iii B. C.).

2 the north, the north, to the north

the north, πρὸς Βορέην (v.l. -ρῆν) ἄνεμον towards the north. Hdt. 2.101; πρὸς Βορέαν τοῦ ὄρους Th. 2.96, cf. 6.2; Βορρᾷ to the north, BGU 1127.12 (i B. C.), etc.; cf. Βορέην· τὴν φῦσαν, Hsch.

5. Βορεάς · Boreas — LSJ

Boread, daughter of Boreas

Boread, daughter of Boreas, S. Ant. 985 (lyr.), Orph. A. 738:—also Βορηΐς, ΐδος, Nonn. D. 33.211.

II northern

as fem. Adj., northern, πνοαί A. Fr. 195.

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Where it came from

  • Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. Βορέας (scan p. 274; entry #1219).
  • Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. Βορέας (scan pp. 284-285; entry #1125).

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