English

Proper noun

Eurus

1. (Greek mythology) The god of the East Wind.
   • 1714 June 10, [Alexander Pope], The Guardian, volume I, number 78, London: Printed for J[acob] Tonson, at Shakespear's-Head over-against Catherine-street in the Strand, page 332:

     For a Tempeſt. Take Eurus, Zephyr, Auſter and Boreas, and caſt them together in one Verſe. Add to theſe of Rain, Lightning, and of Thunder (the loudeſt you can) quantum ſufficit. Mix your Clouds and Billows well together till they foam, and thicken your Deſcription here and there with a Quickſand. Brew your Tempeſt well in your Head, before you ſet it a blowing.

2. (poetic) The east wind personified.

Hypernyms

• Anemoi, Aquilon

Coordinate terms

• Boreas/Septentrio (north), Notos/Auster (south), Eurus/Subsolanus (east), Zephyr/Zephyrus/Favonius (west)

Translations

English

Noun

eurus ‎(plural euruses)

1. (obsolete, poetic) The east wind

Synonyms

• easterly

Antonyms

• zephyr
• westerly

References

• eurus in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek εὖρος ‎(eûros).^[1]

Noun

eurus m ‎(genitive eurī); second declension

1. east, east wind

Inflection

Second declension.

References

• eurus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• eurus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “eurus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• eurus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

1. ↑ “euro 1” in: Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, ISBN 978-88-00-20781-2