argestes

See also: Argestes

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀργέστης (argéstēs).

Noun

argestēs m (genitive argestae); first declension

1. (graecism) wind from the west-northwest (according to Pliny the Elder) or west-southwest (according to Vitruvius)

Synonyms

• caurus

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “southeast wind”): eurus, vulturnus

Derived terms

• Lythronax argestes

References

• “argestes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “argestes”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• argestes in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• argestes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.