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English
Etymology
From Latin hiemalis, from hiems (“winter”). Compare French hyémal.
Pronunciation
Adjective
hyemal (comparative more hyemal, superlative most hyemal)
- Obsolete spelling of hiemal.
c. 1683, Thomas Browne, Certain Miscellany Tracts:But, beside vernal, æstival and autumnal, made of flowers, the ancients had also the hyemal garlands; contenting themselves at first with such as were made of horn dyed into several colours, and shaped into the figure of flowers
2015, Joshua Cohen, The Book of Numbers, page 519:"Break a hunk of ice off the land, crack off a chunk the same proportions as Manhattan Island, then slab Aar's emberous body on out, the winds floating a hyemal pyre melting toward the Pole."
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