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Latin
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
See aestīvus.
Adjective
aestīva
- inflection of aestīvus:
- feminine nominative/ablative/vocative singular
- neuter accusative singular
- neuter nominative/vocative plural
Noun
aestīva n pl (genitive aestīvōrum); second declension
- summer camp, summer resort
- time spent in a summer camp, a campaign
- season for military operations
- summer pastures for cattle
- flocks inhabiting these pastures
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter), plural only.
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
aestīvā
- second-person singular present active imperative of aestīvō
References
- “aestiva”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “aestiva”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- aestiva in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- aestiva in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) winter-quarters, summer-quarters: castra hiberna, aestiva