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Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *heimrinos, from earlier *xeimrinos (to differentiate it from a later form *heimrinos if the shift */x/ > */h/ in the Italic languages already happened during late Proto-Italic), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰey-m-r-ino-s, from *ǵʰey-.
Pronunciation
Adjective
hībernus (feminine hīberna, neuter hībernum); first/second-declension adjective
- wintry
- of or pertaining to winter
- (of places, esp. military camps) suitable for getting through the winter
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
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References
- “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, 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