Dictionary

estival en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈɛstaɪv(ə)l/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /iːˈstaɪv(ə)l/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈiːstɪv(ə)l/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ɛˈstaɪv(ə)l/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From Middle English estival, from Old French estival, from Latin aestivalis.

Meanings

1. Of or relating to summer.
   • A horse, drawing a buggy, breaking his hollow iron music on the asphalt; a loud auto, a quiet auto; people in pairs, not in a hurry, scuffling, switching their weight of aestival body, talking casually; the taste hovering over them of vanilla, strawberry, pasteboard, and starched milk; the image upon them of lovers and horsemen, squared with clowns in hueless amber. 1938, James Agee, Knoxville: Summer of 1915:
2. Coming forth in the summer.
   • […] begin now to redden in abundance on the trees, and continue throughout the month, and part of the next; more particulars of which will be found in our catalogue of aestival fruits. The birds now begin to be very active in devouring the fruits, ... 1824, Thomas Forster, The Perennial Calendar, and Companion to the Almanack, page 328:
   • On the other hand, many tropical flowers and a large number of estival flowers of temperate climates have more specialized structures, their nectar supply being hidden in spurs or at the base of long corolla tubes. 1911, John Merle Coulter, Henry Chandler Cowles, Ecology, page 843:
   • To the first or aestival class must also be referred a small number of early spring flowerers, such as the Alyssums and Drabas. 1880, Rugby School, “Report of the Rugby School Natural History Society”, in Natural History, Society, page 5:
   • Thalictrum purpurascens. Lactuca pulchella. Verbena stricta. The estival period begins about the tenth of June, and is characterized by the rapid diminution of the vernal bloomers rather than by the addition of the important estival flowers . 1892, Contribution[s] from the Botanical Survey of Nebraska, page 72:
   • […] were basking near men-of-the-earth (always a morning glory) and kiss-mes and kiss-me-quicks where she was sure to contract spring fever, vulnerable as she with her romanticist heart was to get it now that estival flowers […] 2009, William Penn, Love in the Time of Flowers, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 754:

Forms

Antonyms

hibernal · brumal · winter · wintry

Coordinates

vernal · brumal · autumnal · serotinal · prevernal

Relateds

estivate

Synonyms

summer · summery

Translations (31)

be ле́тні (of or relating to summer) · cs letní (of or relating to summer) · ka ზაფხულის (of or relating to summer) · sv somrig (of or relating to summer) · id estival (of or relating to summer) · sk letný (of or relating to summer) · nl zomers (of or relating to summer) · gl estival (of or relating to summer) · ka საზაფხულო (of or relating to summer) · io somerala (of or relating to summer) · ru ле́тний (of or relating to summer) · ro estiv (of or relating to summer) · bg летен (of or relating to summer) · ca estival (of or relating to summer) · ka ზაფხულური (of or relating to summer) · it estivo (of or relating to summer) · cy hafol (of or relating to summer) · cmn 夏天的 (of or relating to summer) · fa تابستانی (of or relating to summer) · la aestivālis (of or relating to summer) · es estival (of or relating to summer) · hu nyári (of or relating to summer) · ro estival (of or relating to summer) · de sommerlich (of or relating to summer) · pt estival (of or relating to summer) · uk лі́тній (of or relating to summer) · pt estivo (of or relating to summer) · ro văratic (of or relating to summer) · fr estival (of or relating to summer) · ar صَيْفِيّ (of or relating to summer) · fi kesäinen (of or relating to summer)