Today's Word "austral"
Published in Vocabulary
austral \A-strehl\ (adjective) - Of, pertaining to, or coming from the south.
"My cousin from Georgia speaks with a quaint austral accent"
A word for "southern" on a somewhat higher plane: "austral winds", "austral climes", "austral gravitation". From the Latin auster "south", as in Australia but not Austria (from German Osterreich "the kingdom of the east").
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