mistral

Borrowed from French mistral, from Occitan. Doublet of magistral.

• IPA^(key): /mɪˈstɹɑːl/

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mistral (plural mistrals)

1. 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 365836:

     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

• mistral (wind) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

mistral m

1. mistral (wind)

• mistral in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• mistral in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Borrowed from Old Occitan maestral (whence Occitan mistral) from Late Latin magistrālis, from Latin magister. Doublet of magistral.

• IPA^(key): /mis.tʁal/

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• Homophone: mistrals
• Hyphenation: mis‧tral

mistral m (plural mistrals)

1. (wind) mistral
   • 1963, Jean-Max Rivière (lyrics), Gérard Bourgeois (music), “La Madrague”, performed by Brigitte Bardot:

     Le mistral va s'habituer / A courir sans les voiliers

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• “mistral”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From French mistral.

mistral n (uncountable)

1. mistral

Borrowed from Occitan mistral, from Latin magistrālis. Doublet of maestral and magistral.

mistral m (plural mistrales)

1. mistral (cold wind from the Atlantic)

• “mistral”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014