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Others believe it comes from the Latin africus (ventus), winds from Africa. [3] Άφρικο (Aphriko) in Greek means deriving from Africa, possibly meaning the South-Westernly wind coming to the region from the Libyan Desert. The village of Africo was inhabitted by Griko people, known as Grecanici in Calabria. The Grecanici are a Greek ethnic ...
The word “Ventifact” is derived from the Latin word “Ventus” meaning ‘wind’. These geomorphic features are most typically found in arid environments where there is little vegetation to interfere with aeolian particle transport, where there are frequently strong winds, and where there is a steady but not overwhelming supply of sand.
This led to spurious translations such as Ventus Morbidus (literally "sick wind") for the place name 'Windsor', and de Umbrosa Quercu (literally "from the shady oak") for the surname 'Dimock'. He went on to say that the list includes many names collected from Latin inscriptions on brasses, tombstones, and other monuments, many of them dating to ...
Of the four chief Anemoi, Boreas (Aquilo in Roman mythology) is the north wind and bringer of cold winter air, Zephyrus (Favonius in Latin) [5] is the west wind and bringer of light spring and early-summer breezes, and Notus (Auster in Latin) is the south wind and bringer of the storms of late summer and autumn; Eurus, the southeast [6] (or ...
Buran (a wind which blows across eastern Asia. It is also known as Purga when over the tundra); Karakaze (strong cold mountain wind from Gunma Prefecture in Japan); East Asian Monsoon, known in China and Taiwan as meiyu (梅雨), in Korea as jangma (), and in Japan as tsuyu (梅雨) when advancing northwards in the spring and shurin (秋霖) when retreating southwards in autumn.
The name Foehn (German: Föhn, pronounced) arose in the Alpine region. Originating from Latin (ventus) favonius, a mild west wind of which Favonius was the Roman personification [7] and probably transmitted by Romansh: favuogn or just fuogn, the term was adopted as Old High German: phōnno.
The brief text lists winds blowing from twelve different directions and their alternative names used in different places. [1] According to the manuscript version of the work, The Situations and Names of Winds is an extract from a larger work entitled On Signs ( De Signis ) [ 2 ] likely written by a pseudo-Aristotle of the peripatetic school .
The etesians (/ ɪ ˈ t iː ʒ ən z / or / ɪ ˈ t iː z i ə n z /; Ancient Greek: ἐτησίαι, romanized: etēsiai, lit. 'periodic winds'; [1] sometimes found in the Latin form etesiae), meltemia (Greek: μελτέμια; pl. of μελτέμι meltemi), or meltem are the strong, dry north winds of the Aegean Sea, which blow periodically from about mid-May to mid-September.