hyemal

English

Etymology

From Latin hiemalis, from hiems (“winter”). Compare French hyémal.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈhaɪəməl/

Adjective

hyemal (comparative more hyemal, superlative most hyemal)

  1. 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."

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for hyemal in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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