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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Occurring annually. Used of the prevailing northerly summer winds of the Mediterranean.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Recurring every year; occurring at stated times of the year; periodical. The term was especially applied by Greek and Roman writers to the winds which blow from the north during the summer months, with great regularity and accompanied by a clear sky, over the Mediterranean, especially in its eastern portion. The etesian wind is the trade-wind abnormally prolonged toward the north by the peculiar climatic influences of the Sahara.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Pertaining to a dry north wind which blows in the eastern Mediterranean.
  2. n. A dry north wind which blows in the eastern Mediterranean.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Periodical; annual; -- applied to winds which annually blow from the north over the Mediterranean, esp. the eastern part, for an irregular period during July and August.

Etymologies

  1. From Latin etesius ("annual"), from Ancient Greek ἐτήσιος (etēsios, "annual"), from ἔτος (etos, "year"). (Wiktionary)
  2. From Latin etēsius, from Greek etēsios, from etos, year; see wet-2 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. periodical
  1. annual

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  • reesetee Etymology according to A.W.A.D.: "The word refers to the annual summer winds of the Mediterranean. It's derived from Latin etesius, from Greek etesios, from etos (year). Ultimately from the Indo-European root wet- (year) that is also the source of such words as veteran, veal (in the sense of yearling), and veterinary (relating to the beasts of burden, perhaps alluding to old cattle), inveterate, wether, and bellwether." Jan 8, 2009

  • fbharjo etesian a periodic, seasonal word Jan 16, 2007

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