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Borrowed from Ancient Greek Βορέᾱς (Boréās).

boreas (plural boreases)

  1. (obsolete, poetic) The north wind.
    • 1806 April 12, The Companion and Weekly Miscellany 1806-04-12: Vol 2 Iss 24‎[1]:
      Whether it is most prudent to expose / Our lovely forms to keenest blasts of boreas

From Ancient Greek Βορέᾱς (Boréās).

boreās m (genitive boreae); first declension

  1. north wind
    Synonyms: (Late Latin) borrās, aquilō, septentriō
    Antonym: auster
  2. north (compass direction)
    • c. 347 CE – 420 CE, Hieronymus, Vulgate Num.8.2:
      Loquere Aaron, et dices ad eum: Cum posueris septem lucernas, candelabrum in australi parte erigatur. Hoc igitur praecipe ut lucernae contra boream e regione respiciant ad mensam panum propositionis, contra eam partem, quam candelabrum respicit, lucere debebunt
      Speak to Aaron, and thou shalt say to him: When thou shalt place the seven lamps, let the candlestick be set up on the south side. Give orders therefore that the lamps look over against the north, towards the table of the leaves of proposition, over against that part shall they give light, towards which the candlestick looketh. (Douay-Rheims translation)

First-declension noun (masculine, Greek-type, nominative singular in -ās).

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