AWAD - borasco

Today's word is borasco. The term is also spelled as borasca or borrasca. It's from Spanish borrasca (squall), from Latin borras (north wind), from Greek borras (boreas), after Boreas, the god of the north wind, in Greek mythology who also gave us boreal and hyperborean. Earliest documented use: 1686.

 

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