The corpus record — Latin

ĕtēsĭae

ĕtēsĭae · m

the winds that blow annually during the dog-days for forty days

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What it meant

ĕtēsĭae — Lewis & Short

ĕtēsĭae, ārum, m., = e)thsi/ai (sc. a)/nemoi),

I the winds that blow annually during the dog-days for forty days, Etesian winds, trade-winds, Sen. Q. N. 5, 10 sq.; Col. 11, 2, 56; 58; Lucr. 6, 716; Cic. N. D. 2, 53; id. Fam. 2, 15 fin.; id. poët. Or. 45; Caes. B. C. 3, 107; Liv. 37, 23 et saep.—In sing.: ete-sias, ae, m., = o( e)thsi/as, Plin. 18, 34, 77, § 335.

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