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Caurus

north wind; the north-west wind

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Where it lives

Fescinnina de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 18.25/10k
Phaedra 2 · 2.81/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.8/10k
Pharsalia 9 · 1.77/10k
Thyestes 1 · 1.59/10k
Punica 7 · 0.92/10k
Hercules Oetaeus 1 · 0.89/10k
De consolatione philosophiae 2 · 0.81/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
Thebais 2 · 0.32/10k
De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. caurus — de Vaan

caurus 'north wind; the north-west wind' [m. o] (Lucr.+; also corns) Pit *kawero-. PIE *kh[U-er~o- 'northern (wind?)'. IE cognates: Lith. siaure 'north' < *kehjur-, siuras, siuriis 'cold, northern' « *huHr- < *khjur-; OCS seven 'north', SCr. sever, Sin. sever < *kehjuer-o-. If the Latin and BS1. forms are cognate, caurus can derive from *khjU-er-o- with vocalization of the laryngeal. The ablaut *-r-/-er- shows that … — [de Vaan, s.v. caurus, p. 114]

2. Caurus — Lewis & Short

Caurus or Cōrus, i, m.cf. Goth. skūra, the north wind,

I the north-west wind; form Caurus, Gell. 2, 22, 12 and 22; Lucr. 6, 135; Vitr. 1, 6, 5; Verg. G. 3, 356; form Corus, Caes. B. G. 5, 7; Sen. Q. N. 5, 16, 5; Plin. 2, 47, 46, § 110.

3. caurus — Walde–Hofmann

caurus, vulg. (vgl. Vitr. 1, 6, 5) córus, chürus (gr. Lw. xoüpoc, xdipoc, xüpog), - m. ,Nordwestwind" (seit Luer., -inus Gratt., cauricrepus Àvien.): aus *kou(e)ro- : lit. Siaurys, Akk. Sióuri m. ,Nordwind" (*köuerio-, z. B. v. d. Osten-Sacken IF. 40, 252 gegen MikkolaIF. 16,100; Bióuré f. „Norden*, &iaurüs „wütend, stürmisch"), aksl. usw, sévers „Norden, Nordwind* (*köyero-, Mikkola IF. 16, 100; unwrsch. Hirt IF. … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. caurus, p. 222]

In the wild

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Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. caurus (scan p. 114; entry #231). Root candidates: *kawero-, *kehjur-, *huHr-.
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. caurus (scan pp. 131-132; entry #1943).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. caurus (scan p. 222; entry #604). Root candidates: *köuerio-, *köyero-.

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