eurus Latin · revision 33270

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=2nd half of the 2nd century BC, Furius Antias|origins=grc εὖρος}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈɛu̯.rʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈɛːu̯.rus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''eurus''' ''m'' (genitive eurī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|εὖρος|tr=eûros|t=east or south-east wind]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) Köbler connects the Greek word with [[ine-pro|*h₁eus-|t=to burn]].^(Köbler 2010) Seneca says that the Romans called it [[m|la|vulturnus]], but that the Greek name has been granted citizenship and no longer enters Latin as a foreigner.^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Vitruvius.^(Köbler 2010) The OLD's first example is a line of the poet Furius Antias on the breath of the east winds reddening the waves.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is the east or south-east wind,^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) in Vitruvius, Columella, Seneca, Pliny the Elder and Gellius, and in Horace and Virgil, who also use the plural.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In poetry it stands for any wind, as in Virgil's “swifter than the Eurus”.^(OLD 2012) Ovid sets it against the west wind as the east wind,^(Lewis & Short 1879) and Mela uses it for the East itself.^(OLD 2012) Church Latin has it as the east wind.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 2nd half of the 2nd century BC – Furius Antias, of the east winds.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 84–c. 25 BC – Vitruvius, of the winds.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil, as a typical wind.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43/44 AD – Mela, of the East.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The east or [[m|en|south-east]] wind.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(poetic)'' A wind.^(OLD 2012)

+ # The [[m|en|East]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[eurīnus]]

+ * [[euroaquilō]]

+ * [[euroauster]]

+ * [[eurōus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[vulturnus]]

+ * [[zephyrus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}