different between estivate vs aestiferous
estivate
English
Alternative forms
- aestivate
- æstivate
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??st??ve?t/
Verb
estivate (third-person singular simple present estivates, present participle estivating, simple past and past participle estivated)
- (intransitive) To go into stasis or torpor in the summer months.
Derived terms
- estival
- estivation
Translations
See also
- hibernate
Anagrams
- aviettes, evitates
Italian
Verb
estivate
- second-person plural present indicative of estivare
- second-person plural imperative of estivare
- feminine plural of estivato
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aestiferous
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)
- (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.
- Thus they, estiferous, the hollow sphere
- 1859: John D. Bryant, M. D., Redemption, a Poem, page 241 (John Penington & Son)
- (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.
- 1979: J. Ron Stanfield, Economic Thought and Social Change, page 148 (Southern Illinois University Press; ?ISBN, 9780809309146)
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