etesian
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of etesian
1595–1605; < Latin etēsi ( ae ) < Greek etēsíai ( ánemoi ) periodic (winds) + -an
Example Sentences
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The etesian winds, too, had set in, which made it difficult for his heavy vessels to work out of the harbor.
From Caesar: a Sketch by James Anthony Froude
Those which blow constantly at certain seasons of the year, as monsoon, trade, and etesian winds.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
Cicero mentions the fact of his suffering from an annual illness; what may be called the etesian counter-current from his intemperance.
From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 by Alexander H. (Alexander Hay) Japp
The etesian winds of the Mediterranean are but the N. E. trades, whose northern limit is carried up in summer, by the transit of the connected machinery, to the north, over that sea.
From The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes by Thomas Belden Butler
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