different between hyetal vs hyemal

English

From Ancient Greek ????? (huetós, “rain”).

hyetal (comparative more hyetal, superlative most hyetal)

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

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

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