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austro

austro is a Latin form of auster, meaning “the south wind; the south”. It is the ablative singular masculine noun.

Found 42 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 3.26: … ellatur Nymphaeum, ultra Lissum milia passuum III, eo naves introduxerunt (qui portus ab Africo tegebatur, ab austro non erat tutus) leviusque tempestatis quam classis periculum aestimaverunt Quo simulatque introitum est, incr …

Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.66: nubibus adsiduis pluviaque madescit ab Austro.

All forms of auster (declension table)

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