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hibernus

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Etymology

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    From Proto-Italic *heimrinos, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰey-m-r-ino-s, from *ǵʰey-.[1] Cognate with Ancient Greek χειμερινός (kheimerinós) and related to Latin hiems.

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    Adjective

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    hībernus (feminine hīberna, neuter hībernum); first/second-declension adjective

    1. wintry
    2. of or pertaining to winter
    3. (of places, esp. military camps) suitable for getting through the winter

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    First/second-declension adjective.

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    References

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    • “hibernus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “hibernus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • “hibernus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
      • (ambiguous) in spring, summer, autumn, winter time: verno, aestivo, auctumnali, hiberno tempore
      • (ambiguous) to take the troops to their winter-quarters: milites in hibernis collocare, in hiberna deducere
    • Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1620
    1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 284