hiemo

hiemo

Latin

Etymology

From hiems (winter, rainy season) +‎ .

Pronunciation

Verb

hiemō (present infinitive hiemāre, perfect active hiemāvī, supine hiemātum); first conjugation

  1. 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
  2. to be wintry, stormy, frozen
  3. to freeze, turn to ice

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