βόρεια (boreia)

βόρεια is an Ancient Greek form of βόρειος, meaning “northern”. It is the nominative plural neuter noun or adjective or dative singular feminine noun or adjective.

Found 45 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Comparison of Lucullus and Cimon 3.2: καὶ τὰ μὲν βόρεια μέχρι Φάσιδος, τὰ δʼ ἑῷα μέχρι Μηδίας, τὰ δὲ πρὸς νότον καὶ τήν ἐρυθρὰν θάλασσαν οἰκειωσάμενος διὰ τῶν Ἀραβικ …

Claudius Ptolemaeus, Tetrabiblos 1.9·2: … ὲ λοιποὶ τῆς πτέρυγος λαμπροὶ καὶ οἱ κατὰ τὰ περιζώματα τῷ τε τοῦ Ἑρμοῦ καὶ ἠρέμα τῷ τῆς Ἀφροδίτης ὁ δὲ ἐν τῇ βορείᾳ πτέρυγι λαμπρός, καλούμενος δὲ Προτρυγητήρ, τῷ τοῦ Κρόνου καὶ τῷ τοῦ Ἑρμοῦ· ὁ δὲ καλούμενος Στάχυς τῷ τῆς Ἀφρ …

John of Damascus, Saint, Vita Barlaam et Joasaph 1.4: … τοῦ Ἁγίου Πνεύματος, ὡς ἐντεῦθεν τοὺς μὲν αὐτῶν τὰς ἑῴας λήξεις, τοὺς δὲ τὰς ἑσπερίους λαχόντας περιέρχεσθαι, βόρειά τε καὶ νότια διαθέειν κλίματα, τὸ προστεταγμένον αὐτοῖς πληροῦντας, διάγγελμα τότε καὶ ὁ ἱερώτατος Θωμᾶς, εἷς …

All forms of βόρειος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.