semicardinal

English

Etymology

semi- +‎ cardinal

Adjective

semicardinal (not comparable)

  1. Being or relating to a direction between two adjacent cardinal points, i.e. northwest, northeast, southwest, or southeast.
    • a. 1627 (date written), Francis Bacon, “The History of the Winds”, in James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, and Douglas Denon Heath, editors, The Works of Francis Bacon, […], volume V, London: Longman and Co.;  […], published 1858, →OCLC, page 147:
      Let the general division of the winds be as follows: Cardinal Winds, which blow from the cardinal points of heaven; Semicardinal, which blow halfway between those points
    • 1996, Douglas R. Parks, Myths and Traditions of the Arikara Indians, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 95:
      Historically these colors were associated with the semicardinal directions as follows: black and northeast; yellow and southeast; red and southwest; white and northwest.
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