different between aestuarium vs aestiferous

Latin

Etymology

From aestus (“tide”) +? -?rium (“place for”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ae?s.tu?a?.ri.um/, [äe?s?t?u?ä??i???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /es.tu?a.ri.um/, [?st?u????ium]

Noun

aestu?rium n (genitive aestu?ri? or aestu?r?); second declension

1. tidal marsh or opening
2. creek
3. estuary of a river
4. air shaft of a mine

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

• Old French: estier
  • French: étier
• Galician: esteiro
• Italian: estuario
• Piedmontese: estuari
• Portuguese: esteiro; ? estuário
• Spanish: estero; ? estuario
• ? English: estuary

References

• aestuarium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• aestuarium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• aestuarium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• aestuarium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Alternative forms

• (archaic) æstiferous
• estiferous

Etymology

From Latin aestus (“heat”, “tide”) + English -ferous (“bearing”, “bringing”) (from Latin fer? (“I bear”, “I carry”)).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?st??f?r?s, IPA^(key): /?s?t?f???s/

Adjective

aestiferous (comparative more aestiferous, superlative most aestiferous)

1. (obsolete, not comparable) “Turbulent as the tide”; “ebbing and flowing as the tide”.
   • 1859: John D. Bryant, M. D., Redemption, a Poem, page 241 (John Penington & Son)

     Thus they, estiferous, the hollow sphere
     Within, rack’d, and raged against the Highest.

2. (comparable, chiefly used figuratively) Producing much (aestival) heat.
   • 1979: J. Ron Stanfield, Economic Thought and Social Change, page 148 (Southern Illinois University Press; ?ISBN, 9780809309146)

     Moreover, if the analogy to political revolution teaches anything at all, its instruction would seem to be that revolution is a wasteful and excessively estiferous process.

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