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Latin
Etymology
From brūma + -ōsus. Brūma is derived from brevima, brevissima (“shortest”), the superlative of brevis (“brief; short”) (the winter solstice being the shortest day of the year), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mréǵʰus (“brief, short”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
brūmōsus (feminine brūmōsa, neuter brūmōsum); first/second-declension adjective
- (Late Latin) wintry
ca. 690, Aldhelm,
Epistulae 5, (as quoted in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources):
- ex Hiberniae brumosis circionis insulae climatibus
- from the wintry climate of the Irish northwestern island
- (Late Latin, Medieval Latin) Alternative form of brōmōsus; stinking, fetid, foul-smelling
author lived 344/345–411 CE, Tyrannius Rufinus,
De Vitis Patrum 3, (as quoted in the Du Cange dictionary):
- Et cum fœteret brumosa aqua odore, non permittebat, ut aliam aquam mutarent.
- And although the foul water smelled bad, he didn't allow others to change the water.
1544, ?,
Aesculapius: de morborum ... cura liber experimentarius medicinae , (Strasbourg: published by John Schottum):
- ructant melancholici frequenter calidum, brumosum, fumosum.
- The melancholic often belch something hot, foul-smelling, smoky.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
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