aestas

Latin

Etymology

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From Proto-Italic *aissāts, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eydʰ- (“burn; fire”). Cognate with Latin aestus, poss. aedis, Ancient Greek αἴθω (aíthō)), Old English ād (“pyre”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈae̯s.taːs/, [ˈäe̯s̠t̪äːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈes.tas/, [ˈɛst̪äs]
• Rhymes: -aːs

Noun

aestās f (genitive aestātis); third declension

1. summer

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	aestās	aestātēs
Genitive	aestātis	aestātum
Dative	aestātī	aestātibus
Accusative	aestātem	aestātēs
Ablative	aestāte	aestātibus
Vocative	aestās	aestātēs

Derived terms

• aestivus
• aestivation
• estivation

Related terms

• aestus

Descendants

• Dalmatian: instuat
• English: aestival
• French: été
• Friulian: istât
• Italian: estate
• Portuguese: estio
• Catalan: estiu

• Spanish: estío
• Romansch: stad, sted
• Sardinian: istade, istadi, stadi
• Sicilian: astati
• Venetian: istà
• Walloon: esté

References

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