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adj
Blowing from sea to land.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable, obsolete, rare
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name
An epithet of Jupiter and Zeus: turner to flight; he who puts to flight.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare
Qualifier: Greek and Roman antiquities
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History
From Latin tropae(us) (“turning back”, “returning”, adjective) + -an; from the Plinian phrase ventī tropaeī (“sea-breezes”, literally “winds blowing from the sea towards the land”), from Ancient Greek τροπαῖος (tropaîos, adjective) (also used in the noun phrase πνοή τροπαία (pnoḗ tropaía, “an alternating wind, blowing back from sea to land”)), from τρόπος (trópos, “turning”).
