adjectivefirst/second-declension adjective
aestīvus
aestīvus (feminine aestīva, neuter aestīvum)
Classical[ae̯sˈtiː.wʊs]Ecclesiastical[esˈtiː.vus]
aestīve sg. voc. m.
Meaning
- adjectiverelationalsummer
- adjectivesummery
In the readers how our graded readers gloss it
of summer
aestīvus -a -um — in De Bello Gallico III
Declension
| form | masculine | feminine | neuter |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | aestīvus | aestīva | aestīvum |
| genitive | aestīvī | aestīvae | aestīvī |
| dative | aestīvō | aestīvae | aestīvō |
| accusative | aestīvum | aestīvam | aestīvum |
| ablative | aestīvō | aestīvā | aestīvō |
| vocative | aestīve | aestīva | aestīvum |
| form | masculine | feminine | neuter |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | aestīvī | aestīvae | aestīva |
| genitive | aestīvōrum | aestīvārum | aestīvōrum |
| dative | aestīvīs | aestīvīs | aestīvīs |
| accusative | aestīvōs | aestīvās | aestīva |
| ablative | aestīvīs | aestīvīs | aestīvīs |
| vocative | aestīvī | aestīvae | aestīva |
Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book
- castra hiberna, aestiva
- winter-quarters, summer-quarters.
- verno, aestivo, auctumnali, hiberno tempore
- in spring, summer, autumn, winter time.
aestīvus, a, um, adj. aestas,
I. of or pertaining to summer, summer-like, summer (freq. and class.):
Quo pacto aestivis e partibus Aegocerotis Brumalīs adeat flexus, turns from the hot region of heaven to the wintry sign of Capricorn, Lucr. 5, 615; so id. 5, 639: aestivos menses rei militari dare, hibernos juris dictioni, Cic. Att. 5, 14: tempora, dies, summer time, summer days, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 31: sol, Verg. G. 4, 28: aura, Hor. C. 1, 22, 18: umbra, Ov. M. 13, 793: rus, Mart. 8, 61: per aestivos saltus deviasque calles exercitum ducimus, through woods, where flocks were driven for summer pasture, Liv. 22, 14: aves, summer birds, id. 5, 6: animalia, the insects of summer, Plin. 9, 47, 71, § 154: expeditiones, which were undertaken in summer, Vell. 2, 114: castra, a summer camp (constructed differently from a winter camp), Suet. Claud. 1.—Hence, II. Subst.: aestīva, ōrum, n.
A. For a summer camp, τὰ θερινά:
dum in aestivis essemus, Cic. Att. 5, 17; id. Fam. 2, 13: aestiva praetoris, of a pleasure-camp, pleasurehouse, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 37.—B. The time appropriate for a campaign (cf. aestas; often continuing until December; v. Manut. ad Cic. Fam. 2, 7);
hence, a campaign, Cic. Pis. 40: aestivis confectis, after the campaign was ended (which did not take place until the Saturnalia, XIV. Kal. Januar.), id. Fam. 3, 9 fin.: perducere aestiva in mensem Decembrem, Vell. 2, 105.—C. Summer pastures for cattle:
per montium aestiva, Plin. 24, 6, 19, § 28.—Meton. for the cattle themselves: Nec singula morbi Corpora corripiunt, sed tota aestiva, Verg. G. 3, 472.— Hence, * adv.: aestīvē, in a summer-like manner, as in summer: admodum aestive viaticati sumus, we are furnished in a very summer-like manner with money for our journey, i. e. we have but little (the figure taken from the light dress of summer; or, acc. to others, from the scanty provisions which soldiers took with them in summer), Plaut. Men. 2, 1, 30.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
aestīvus adj.
aestas, of summer, as in summer, summer-like, summer: tempus, Cs.: dies: sol, V.: aura, H.: umbra, O.: per aestivos saltūs, summer pastures, L.: aves, summer birds, L.—Adverb.: aestivum tonat, Iu.
Origins
From aestās (“summer”) + -īvus.
Descendants
- Englishaestive
- Italianestivo
- Portugueseestivo
- Piedmonteseestiv
In English words that came into English from aestīvus
- estivalaestivalis
- aestivationaestīvātiō
- aestivoautumnalaestīvus