This week’s theme
Weather & climate

This week’s words
barometer
favonian
autumnal
weather vane
hibernal

---

A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(hy-BUHR-nuhl)

MEANING:

adjective: Of or relating to winter.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin hibernus (wintry), from Latin hiems (winter). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ghei- (winter), which is the ancestor of words such as hibernate, hibernaculum, hiemal, chimera, and the Himalayas, from Sanskrit him (snow) + alaya (abode). Earliest documented use: before 1626.

USAGE:

“Stay too long in the hibernal realm,
And the chill begins to overwhelm.”
Stewart Stafford; Hibernal Realm; 2021.

See more usage examples of hibernal in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: