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aestas

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Latin

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Etymology

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From Proto-Italic *aissāts, with the suffix -tāt-s restored via analogy. The root is from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eydʰ- (burn; fire), and has cognates in Latin aestus, perhaps aedis, Ancient Greek αἴθω (aíthō)), Old English ād (pyre). The noun suffix is from Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts.

De Vaan criticizes a prevalent simple etymology from *h₂e-h₂idʰ-teh₂t-s (with an i-reduplicated root) as unfounded, also observing -dʰt- becomes -ss- in Latin rather than -st-, preferring instead *h₂eydʰ-teh₂ts > Proto-Italic *aissāt-s, which then had the suffix -t- consonant restored.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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aestās f (genitive aestātis); third declension

  1. summer

Declension

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Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative aestās aestātēs
genitive aestātis aestātum
dative aestātī aestātibus
accusative aestātem aestātēs
ablative aestāte aestātibus
vocative aestās aestātēs

Derived terms

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Descendants

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References

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  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “aestās”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 28

Further reading

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