English
aestivation
Aestivation comes from Latin aestīvō ‘to spend or pass the summer in a place’, and goes back to aestās.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEaestās‘summer’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEaestīvus‘of or pertaining to summer’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEaestīvō‘to spend or pass the summer in a place’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEaestīvātiō
- Englishearliest quotation 1625aestivation
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEaestās‘summer’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEaestīvus‘of or pertaining to summer’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEaestīvō‘to spend or pass the summer in a place’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEaestīvātiō
- Englishearliest quotation 1625aestivation
Earliest quotation: 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Building. XLV.: “On the Vnder Story, tovvards the Garden, Let it…”
Every English word from Latin aestās
Today it means
noun A state of inactivity and metabolic depression during summer: the summer version of hibernation.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin aestās / aestivation