Aeolus

Ae·o·lus

A0110300 (ē′ə-ləs)n.1. Greek Mythology The god of the winds.2. A king of Thessaly and ancestor of the Aeolians.

[Latin, from Greek Aiolos, from aiolos, quick, changeable.]

Aeolus

(ˈiːələs; iːˈəʊləs) n1. (Classical Myth & Legend) the god of the winds2. (Classical Myth & Legend) the founding king of the Aeolians in Thessaly

Ae•o•lus

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n. the ancient Greek god of the winds.

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Noun

Aeolus - god of the winds in ancient mythology

Translations

Aeolus

(ē`ələs), in Greek mythology. 1 The wind god. He lived on the island of Aeolia, where he kept the winds in a cave. 2 Son of HellenHellen
, in Greek mythology, ancestor of the Hellenes, or Greeks; son of Deucalion and Pyrrha. He was the father of Dorus, Xuthus, and Aeolus, who were the progenitors of the principal nations of the Greeks—the Dorians, the Ionians, the Achaeans, and the Aeolians.
..... Click the link for more information. and ancestor of the Aeolian branch of the Hellenic race.

Aeolus

god of the winds. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 9]See: Air

Aeolus

steward of winds; gives bag of winds to Odysseus. [Gk. Myth: Kravitz, 10; Gk. Lit.: Odyssey]See: Wind

Aeolus

(language)A concurrent language with atomic transactions.

["Rationale for the Design of Aeolus", C. Wilkes et al, ProcIEEE 1986 Intl Conf Comp Lang, IEEE 1986, pp.107-122].