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English
Etymology
From Latin etesius ‘annual’, from Greek ετησιος, from ετος ‘year’.

Pronunciation
IPA: /ɪ'ti:zɪən/, /ɪ'ti:ʒən/

Adjective
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1. pertaining to a dry north wind which blows in the eastern Mediterranean

#:*1997: Dixon, assailed without mercy by his Sensorium, almost in a swoon, finds himself, on Nights of Cloud, less and less able to forgo emerging at dusk, cloaked against the Etesian wind, and making directly for the prohibited parts of town. — Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon

Noun
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1. a dry north wind which blows in the eastern Mediterranean

Category:Weather

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