different between siroc vs sirocco

English

Etymology

From archaic French siroc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s????k/

Noun

siroc (plural sirocs)

1. Synonym of sirocco
   • 1801, Robert Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer

     like the blasting Siroc of the sands,
     The ruin of the royal voice
     Found its way everywhere

   • 1809, Lord Byron, "Stanzas Composed During a Thunderstorm":

     Full swiftly blew the swift Siroc,

     When last I press'd thy lip;

     And long ere now, with foaming shock

     Impell'd thy gallant ship.

   • 1818, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein:

     I listened to every blast of wind as if it were a dull ugly siroc on its way to consume me.

   • 1876, Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Test":

     These the siroc could not melt,

     Fire their fiercer flaming felt,

     And the meaning was more white

     Than July's meridian light.

Anagrams

• Corsi, coirs

English

Alternative forms

• siroc (rare)
• scirocco

Etymology

From Italian scirocco (“south-east wind”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s????ko?/, /?????ko?/

Noun

sirocco (plural siroccos)

1. A hot and often strong southerly to southeasterly wind on the Mediterranean that originates in the Sahara and adjacent North African regions.

   Synonym: ghibli (Libya)

   • 1888 Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist 1

     This tolerance and largeur of the heart that 'forgives' everything because it 'understands' everything, is sirocco for us.

   • 1814 George Gordon, Lord Byron Corsair, i:14

     But come, the board is spread ; our silver lamp / Is trimm'd, and heeds not the sirocco's damp.

2. A draft of hot air from an artificial source of heat.
   • (colloquial) 2003, Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America, Random House, ?ISBN, page 113:

     In the hearth at the north wall a large fire cracked and lisped, flushing the room with a dry sirocco that caused frozen skin to tingle.

Translations

References

• 1896 Universal Dictionary of the English Language, vol 4 p 4286

Further reading

• sirocco on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian scirocco.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?si?r?.ko?/
• Hyphenation: si?roc?co
• Rhymes: -?ko?

Noun

sirocco m (plural sirocco's)

1. sirocco (wind on the Mediterranean originating from North Africa)
2. (rare, dated) kiln

   Synonym: droogoven

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si.??.ko/

Etymology

From Italian scirocco.

Noun

sirocco m (plural siroccos)

1. (literally and figuratively) sirocco