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hibernal

Meaningwintry

Common meaning: relating to winter

Journey through time

  1. Latinhibernalis‘wintry’source
  2. Frenchhibernal‘wintry’source
  3. Englishmeaning shiftswintry → relating to winterhibernal‘relating to winter’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
  • US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.

Origin: Built on Latin hibernalis ‘wintry’.

Did you know: our wording, based on Skeat, Etymological Dictionary (1898), entry HIBERNAL, p. 264 · dictionary scan

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