autumnal

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ɔˈtʌmnəɫ/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɔːˈtʌmnəl/

Etymology

autumn +‎ -al

Adjective

autumnal (comparative more autumnal, superlative most autumnal)

1. Of or relating to autumn.
2. Past the middle of life; in the third stage.
   • 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter:

     "The magistrates are God-fearing gentlemen, but merciful over-much,--that is a truth," added a third autumnal matron.

Hypernyms

• (of or relating to autumn): seasonal

Coordinate terms

• (pertaining to seasons): spring, vernal; summer (summery), aestival/estival; winter (wintry), hibernal, brumal

Derived terms

• aestivoautumnal, estivoautumnal
• autumnal equinox
• autumnal hawkbit
• autumnally
• autumnal moth
• autumnal point
• autumnal signs
• autumnal star
• Russian autumnal encephalitis

• autumnal in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Translations

of or relating to autumn

• Belarusian: восеньскі (vosjenʹski), асенні (asjenni)
• Catalan: autumnal
• Czech: podzimní (cs)
• Finnish: syksyinen (fi)
• French: automnal (fr)

  Old French: autumnal

• Galician: outonal (gl)
• German: herbstlich (de)
• Hungarian: őszies
• Ido: autunala (io)
• Italian: autunnale (it)

• Latin: autumnalis
• Persian: پاییزی‎ (fa) (pâyizi)
• Polish: jesienny (pl) m
• Portuguese: outonal (pt)
• Romanian: tomnatic (ro), de toamnă
• Russian: осе́нний (ru) (osénnij)
• Serbo-Croatian: jèsēnjī (sh)
• Spanish: otoñal (es)
• Swedish: höstlig (sv), höst-
• Welsh: hydrefol (cy)

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Old French

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin autumnalis.

Adjective

autumnal m (oblique and nominative feminine singular autumnale)

1. autumnal

Descendants

• French: automnal

References

• “automnal” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).