The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromΒορέᾱς“personification of the north wind”
- Latin · borrowed fromboreālis“northern”
- English todayboreal
Borrowed from Latin boreālis (“northern”), from Boreās, from Ancient Greek Βορέᾱς (Boréās, “personification of the north wind”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient GreekΒορέᾱς all →
boreas
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.