different between westerly vs eurus

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?w?st?(?)li/

Adjective

westerly (comparative more westerly, superlative most westerly)

1. Situated in the west.
2. (of wind) Coming from the west.

Synonyms

• ponent
• westly

Related terms

• (wind): wester

Translations

Adverb

westerly (comparative more westerly, superlative most westerly)

1. Towards the west.

Usage notes

Used by Land Surveyors when they do not want to be specific (not Astronomic West)

Synonyms

• westly

Noun

westerly (plural westerlies)

1. A westerly wind or storm.

Synonyms

• zephyr

Translations

Derived terms

• north-westerly, northwesterly
• south-westerly, southwesterly

Anagrams

• sweltery

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