aestivus

Latin

Etymology

From aestās (“summer”) ‎ -īvus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ae̯sˈtiː.u̯us/, [äe̯s̠ˈt̪iːu̯ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /esˈti.vus/, [esˈt̪iːvus]

Adjective

aestīvus (feminine aestīva, neuter aestīvum); first/second-declension adjective

1. (relational) summer
2. summery

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	aestīvus	aestīva	aestīvum		aestīvī	aestīvae	aestīva
genitive	aestīvī	aestīvae	aestīvī		aestīvōrum	aestīvārum	aestīvōrum
dative	aestīvō	aestīvae	aestīvō		aestīvīs
accusative	aestīvum	aestīvam	aestīvum		aestīvōs	aestīvās	aestīva
ablative	aestīvō	aestīvā	aestīvō		aestīvīs
vocative	aestīve	aestīva	aestīvum		aestīvī	aestīvae	aestīva

Derived terms

• aestīva
• aestīvālis
• tempus aestīvum

Descendants

• → English: aestive
• → Italian: estivo
• → Piedmontese: estiv
• → Portuguese: estivo

References

• “aestivus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “aestivus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• aestivus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) winter-quarters, summer-quarters: castra hiberna, aestiva