Euroclydon (or in Latin: Euroaquilo) is a cyclonic tempestuous northeast wind which blows in the Mediterranean, mostly in autumn and winter. It is the modern Gregalia (Gregale) or Levanter. From the Greek word eurokludōn [εὐροκλύδων], from Euros (Eurus, meaning east wind) + and the Greek word akulōn (akylōn, meaning north wind) unatt...
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• (n.) A tempestuous northeast wind which blows in the Mediterranean. See Levanter.
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Eu·roc'ly·don noun [ New Latin , from Greek ...; ... the southeast wind + ... wave, billow; according to another reading, ...,
i. e. a north-east wind, as in the Latin Vulgate
Euro-aquilo .] A tempestuous northeast wind which blows in the Mediterranean. See
Levanter . « A te...
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The Euroclydon is a tempestuous wind of the Levant, which was the occasion of the shipwreck of the vessel in which St Paul sailed, as narrated in Acts XXVII. 14-44. The north-east wind is the wind evidently meant in the narrative.
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