The corpus record — Latin

caecias

caecias · m

the northeast wind

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Where it lives

De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k
Naturalis Historia 6 · 0.15/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

caecĭas — Lewis & Short

caecĭas, ae, m., = kaiki/as,

I the northeast wind (acc. to more accurate nautical designation, north-east by east), Plin. 2, 47, 46, § 120 sq.; 18, 34, 77, § 334; Vitr. 1, 6; Gell. 2, 22, 24 (written as Greek, Sen. Q. N. 5, 16, 4).

In the wild

caecias Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 2.22.24
Caeciae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 4.12.p1
caecian Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 18.34.p2
caecian Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 2.47.p3
caecian Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 2.47.p1
caecian Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 2.47.p1

6 of 8 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.