estival

• aestival
• æstival (archaic)

From Middle English estival, from Old French estival, from Latin aestivalis.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /iːˈstaɪv(ə)l/, /ˈiːstɪv(ə)l/, /ɛˈstaɪv(ə)l/, /ˈɛstaɪv(ə)l/
• Rhymes: -aɪvəl

estival (comparative more estival, superlative most estival)

1. Of or relating to summer.

   Synonyms: summery, summer

   Antonyms: hibernal, brumal, winter, wintry

   • 1938, James Agee, Knoxville: Summer of 1915:

     A horse, drawing a buggy, breaking his hollow iron music on the asphalt; a loud auto, a quiet auto; people in pairs, not in a hurry, scuffling, switching their weight of aestival body, talking casually; the taste hovering over them of vanilla, strawberry, pasteboard, and starched milk; the image upon them of lovers and horsemen, squared with clowns in hueless amber.

2. Coming forth in the summer.
   • 1824, Thomas Forster, The Perennial Calendar, and Companion to the Almanack, page 328:

     […] begin now to redden in abundance on the trees, and continue throughout the month, and part of the next; more particulars of which will be found in our catalogue of aestival fruits. The birds now begin to be very active in devouring the fruits, ...

   • 1880, Rugby School, “Report of the Rugby School Natural History Society”, in Natural History, Society, page 5:

     To the first or aestival class must also be referred a small number of early spring flowerers, such as the Alyssums and Drabas.

   • 1892, Contribution from the Botanical Survey of Nebraska, page 72:

     Thalictrum purpurascens. Lactuca pulchella. Verbena stricta. The estival period begins about the tenth of June, and is characterized by the rapid diminution of the vernal bloomers rather than by the addition of the important estival flowers .

   • 1911, John Merle Coulter, Henry Chandler Cowles, Ecology, page 843:

     On the other hand, many tropical flowers and a large number of estival flowers of temperate climates have more specialized structures, their nectar supply being hidden in spurs or at the base of long corolla tubes.

   • 2009, William Penn, Love in the Time of Flowers, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 754:

     […] were basking near men-of-the-earth (always a morning glory) and kiss-mes and kiss-me-quicks where she was sure to contract spring fever, vulnerable as she with her romanticist heart was to get it now that estival flowers […]

• estivate

• Ilvates, Vitelas, alvites, silvate

Borrowed from Latin aestivālis.

• IPA^(key): (Central)
• IPA^(key): (Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)
• Rhymes: -al

estival m or f (masculine and feminine plural estivals)

1. estival

   Antonym: hivernal

• estiu

• “estival” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

First attested in 1119. From Old French estival, from Latin aestivālis, from aestas (“summer”) (whence French été).

• IPA^(key): /ɛs.ti.val/

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estival (feminine estivale, masculine plural estivaux, feminine plural estivales)

1. estival, summery

   Coordinate terms: printanier, automnal, hivernal

• estiver

• “estival”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

• lévitas
• vitales

From Latin aestivālis (“relating to the summer”), from aestīvus (“of the summer”), from aestas (“summer”).

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: ès‧ti‧val

estival

1. estival

• “estival” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Learned borrowing from Latin aestīvālis (“relating to the summer”), from aestīvus (“of the summer”), from aestās (“summer”).

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
• Hyphenation: es‧ti‧val

estival m or f (plural estivais, not comparable)

1. estival, summery
2. (botany) estival (coming forth in the summer)

• estivalmente

• estio
• estivar

Borrowed from French estival.

• IPA^(key): /es.tiˈval/

estival m or n (feminine singular estivală, masculine plural estivali, feminine and neuter plural estivale)

1. estival

   Synonym: estiv

• estival in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

From Latin aestivālis (“relating to the summer”), from aestīvus (“of the summer”), from aestus (“heat”).

• IPA^(key): /estiˈbal/
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: es‧ti‧val

estival m or f (masculine and feminine plural estivales)

1. summery, estival

   Synonym: veraniego

• “estival”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28