The corpus record — Latin

Zĕphўrus

Zĕphўrus · m

a gentle west wind

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What it meant

Zĕphўrus — Lewis & Short

Zĕphўrus, i, m., = *ze/furos,

I a gentle west wind, the western breeze, zephyr (pure Lat. Favonius); personified, son of Astrœus and Aurora.

I Lit., Plin. 18, 34, 77, § 337; Hor. C. 3, 1, 24; 4, 7, 9; id. Ep. 1, 7, 13; Verg. G. 1, 44; id. A. 4, 223; Ov. M. 1, 64; 1, 108; cf. Sen. Q. N. 5, 16, 5.—

II Poet., in gen., wind, Verg. A. 4, 562.

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.