different between easterly vs eurus

English

Etymology

easter +? -ly

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?is.t??li/

Noun

easterly (plural easterlies)

1. (meteorology) Any persistent wind from the east (usually applied to broad currents or belts of easterly winds).

Translations

See also

• equatorial easterly
• tropical easterly
• polar easterly

Adjective

easterly (comparative more easterly, superlative most easterly)

1. Facing the east; directed towards the east.

   an easterly course or voyage

2. Located towards the east.

   the easterly side of a lake

3. Coming from the east.

   an easterly wind

Synonyms

• eastly

Derived terms

• easterliness

Translations

Adverb

easterly (comparative more easterly, superlative most easterly)

1. In an eastward direction or position; towards the east.
2. From the east.

Synonyms

• eastly

Anagrams

• tresayle

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.

Anagrams

• UUers, usure

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ????? (eûros).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?eu?.rus/, [??u???s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?eu?.rus/, [???u?rus]

Noun

eurus m (genitive eur?); second declension

1. (graecism) the southeast wind
   1. the east wind
   2. (figuratively) the East

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Synonyms

• (southeast wind): vulturnus
• (east wind): ap?li?t?s, subs?l?nus, s?l?nus

Antonyms

• (southeast wind): argest?s, caurus
• (east wind): fav?nius, zephyrus

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
• eurus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• eurus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers