mistral
See also: Mistral
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French mistral, from Occitan. Doublet of magistral.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɪˈstɹɑːl/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Noun
mistral (plural mistrals)
- A strong cold north-west wind in southern France and the Mediterranean.
- 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 48”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:
- I saw him, the sea gray under the mistral and foam-flecked, watching the vanishing coast of France, which he was destined never to see again; and I thought there was something gallant in his bearing and dauntless in his soul.
- 1973, Patrick O'Brian, HMS Surprise:
- The mistral had been blowing for three days now and the sea showed more white than blue
Translations
strong cold north-west wind in southern France and the Mediterranean
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Further reading
- mistral (wind) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Czech
Declension
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French
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Occitan maestral (whence Occitan mistral) from Late Latin magistrālis, from Latin magister. Doublet of magistral.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mis.tʁal/
Audio (file) - Homophone: mistrals
- Hyphenation: mis‧tral
Noun
mistral m (plural mistrals)
- (wind) mistral
- 1963, “La Madrague”, Jean-Max Rivière (lyrics), Gérard Bourgeois (music), performed by Brigitte Bardot:
- Le mistral va s’habituer / A courir sans les voiliers
- The mistral will get used / To blowing with no sails to fill
Further reading
- “mistral”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Romanian
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /misˈtɾal/ [misˈt̪ɾal]
- Rhymes: -al
- Syllabification: mis‧tral
Further reading
- “mistral”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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