hiemo
Latin
Etymology
From hiems (“winter, rainy season”) + -ō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈhi.ɛ.moː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈiː.e.mo]
Verb
hiemō (present infinitive hiemāre, perfect active hiemāvī, supine hiemātum); first conjugation
- to winter, pass the winter
- c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 3.1:
- Huic permisit, si opus esse arbitraretur, uti in his locis legionem hiemandi causa conlocaret.
- He permitted him to, if he thought it nessecary, station the legions in these places for the sake of wintering
- Huic permisit, si opus esse arbitraretur, uti in his locis legionem hiemandi causa conlocaret.
- to be wintry, stormy, frozen
- to freeze, turn to ice
Conjugation
Conjugation of hiemō (first conjugation)
Derived terms
Descendants
- English: hiemate
References
- “hiemo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “hiemo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “hiemo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to bear the winter: hiemem tolerare
- (ambiguous) to bear the winter: hiemem tolerare