winter
Contents
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English winter, from Old English winter, from Proto-Germanic *wintruz (“winter”). Cognate with West Frisian winter (“winter”), Dutch winter (“winter”), German Winter (“winter”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian vinter (“winter”), Icelandic vetur (“winter”).
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈwɪntə/
- (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈwɪntɚ/, enPR: wĭnʹtər
- Rhymes: -ɪntə(ɹ)
- Homophone: winner (US, Canada, some dialects)
- Hyphenation (UK): winter, (US): win‧ter
NounEdit
winter (countable and uncountable, plural winters)
- Traditionally the fourth of the four seasons, typically regarded as being from December 23 to March 20 in continental regions of the Northern Hemisphere or the months of June, July and August in the Southern Hemisphere. It is the time when the sun is lowest in the sky, resulting in short days, and the time of year with the lowest atmospheric temperatures for the region.
- a1420, The British Museum Additional MS, 12,056, “Wounds complicated by the Dislocation of a Bone”, in Robert von Fleischhacker, editor, Lanfranc's "Science of cirurgie."[1], London: K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co, translation of original by Lanfranc of Milan, published 1894, →ISBN, page 63:
- Ne take noon hede to brynge togidere þe parties of þe boon þat is to-broken or dislocate, til viij. daies ben goon in þe wyntir, & v. in þe somer; for þanne it schal make quytture, and be sikir from swellynge; & þanne brynge togidere þe brynkis eiþer þe disiuncture after þe techynge þat schal be seid in þe chapitle of algebra.
- 1592, Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1:
- And after summer evermore succeeds / Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold.
- 1646, Thomas Browne, “Of the Cameleon”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: Or, Enquiries into Very Many Received Tenents, and Commonly Presumed Truths, London: Printed for Tho. Harper for Edvvard Dod, OCLC 838860010; Pseudodoxia Epidemica: Or, Enquiries into Very Many Received Tenents, and Commonly Presumed Truths. […], book 3, 2nd corrected and much enlarged edition, London: Printed by A. Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath. Ekins, […], 1650, OCLC 152706203, page 133:
- It cannot be denied it [the chameleon] is (if not the moſt of any) a very abſtemious animall, and ſuch as by reaſon of its frigidity, paucity of bloud, and latitancy in the winter (about which time the obſervations are often made) will long ſubſist without a viſible ſuſtentation.
- 1785, William Cowper, “Tirocinium: or, A Review of Schools." in The Poems of William Cowper, Vol. II., The Press of C. Whittingham (1822), page 174:
- There shall he learn, ere sixteen winters old, / That [...]
- 1897, William Morris, The Water of the Wondrous Isles, Vol. I, Longmans, Green and Co. (1914), page 2:
- [...] a woman, tall, and strong of aspect, of some thirty winters by seeming, [...]
- (figuratively, poetic) The period of decay, old age, death, or the like.
- {{quote-book|author=William Wordsworth
- (obsolete) An appliance to be fixed on the front of a grate, to keep a kettle warm, etc.
Usage notesEdit
- Note that season names are usually spelled in all lowercase letters in English. This is contrast to the days of the week and months of the year, which are always spelled with a capitalized first letter, for example Thursday or September.
HyponymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
- bewinter
- early-winter
- Fimbulwinter
- forwintered
- in-winter
- late-winter
- love-in-winter
- midwinter
- mid-winter
- outwinter
- out-winter
- overwinter
- rere-winter
- twinter
- unwinter
- winterage
- winterberry
- winter-bloom
- winter-clad
- winter-close
- winter-crack
- wintercress
- wintered
- Winter-een-mas
- winter-feed
- winterfeed
- Winterfest
- winter-flower
- Winterfresh
- winter-ground
- winter-gull
- winter-hained
- winter-hardy
- winterhardy
- Winterhaven
- winter-house
- winteridge
- winterim
- winterise
- winterish
- winterize
- winter-killed
- winterless
- winterling
- winter-long
- winter-love
- Winterlude
- winter-mew
- winter-old
- winter-pick
- winter-piece
- winter-pride
- winter-pround
- winter-rig
- winters
- winter-shad
- wintersome
- winter-stall
- Winterstown
- Wintersville
- wintersweet
- winter-sweet
- winter-thorn
- winter-tide
- wintertide
- wintertime
- winter-time
- Winterval
- Winterville
- winterward
- winterwards
- winter-weed
- winterweed
- winterweight
- winter-weight
- wintrous
Related termsEdit
- Arctic Winter Games
- Austrian winter pea
- beady-legged winter horse tick
- buy straw hats in winter
- Canella winterana
- Chinese winter squash
- Drimys winteri
- early winter cress
- East Indian winter jet
- Father Winter
- Fell Winter
- Hildewintera
- Madeira winter cherry
- Old Man Winter
- Operation Dark Winter
- Pseudowintera
- Spencer's winter vomiting
- summer and winter
- Villa Winter
- Western Winter Blast
- wild winterpea
- winter aconite
- winteran
- winter and winter
- winter annual
- winter apple
- winter barley
- winter-beaten
- winter berry
- winter bloom
- winterbourne
- winter break
- winter bud
- winter bunting
- winter carnival
- winter cherry
- Winter Circle
- winter city
- winter clover
- winter cluster
- Winter Coast
- winter coat
- winter corn
- winter cough
- winter count
- winter country
- winter cress
- winter crookneck
- winter crookneck squash
- winter crop
- winter currant
- winter daffodil
- winter depression
- winter duck
- winter dysentery
- winter eczema
- winter egg
- winter falcon
- winter fallow
- winter fat
- winter fern
- winter fever
- winter finch
- winter flounder
- winter flowering cherry
- Winter Games
- winter garden
- winter gillyflower
- winter gnat
- winter grape
- wintergreen
- winter greens
- winter guard
- winter gull
- Winter Harbor
- Winter Harbour
- Winter Haven
- winter hawk
- winter hazel
- winter heath
- winter heliotrope
- winter hellebore
- winter hemp
- Winter Hexagon
- Winter Hill
- winter holidays
- winter ice
- Winter Island
- winter itch
- winter jasmine
- Winter King
- Winter Line
- winter lodge
- winter lodgment
- winterly
- Winter Magic Festival
- winter marjoram
- winter melon
- winter melon vine
- winter mew
- winter midge
- winter monsoon
- winter moth
- winter mushroom
- winter oats
- Winter of Discontent
- winter oil
- Winter Olympic Games
- Winter Olympics
- winter ova
- winter packet
- Winter Palace
- Winter Park
- winter peach
- winter pear
- winter purslane
- winter quarters
- Winter Queen
- winter queening
- winter range
- winter rape
- winter redbird
- winter road
- winter rocket
- winter rose
- winter rules
- winter-run fish
- winter rye
- winter savory
- Winter's bark
- winter's bark
- Winter's cinnamon
- winter scours
- winter shad
- winter sheldrake
- winter sleep
- winter sleeper
- winter snipe
- winter solstice
- winter sport
- Winter Springs
- winter squash
- Winter's syndrome
- winter storm
- winter story
- winter strawberry
- winter sweet
- winter sweet marjoram
- winter tale
- winter teal
- winter tick
- winter tire
- Winter Triangle
- winter tyre
- winter urn
- winter vacation
- winter visitor
- winter vomiting disease
- winter wagtail
- Winter War
- winter warfare
- winter wash
- winter wheat
- Winter White House
- winter white Russian hamster
- winter wicket
- winter woolies
- winter woollies
- winter worm
- winter worm summer grass
- winter wren
- wintery
- wintry
- Wintera
- Winteria
- Winterocereus
TranslationsEdit
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See alsoEdit
Seasons in English · seasons (layout · text) | |||
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spring | summer | fall, autumn | winter |
VerbEdit
winter (third-person singular simple present winters, present participle wintering, simple past and past participle wintered)
- (intransitive) To spend the winter (in a particular place).
- When they retired, they hoped to winter in Florida.
- (transitive) To store something (for instance animals) somewhere over winter to protect it from cold.
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
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AnagramsEdit
AfrikaansEdit
Alemannic GermanEdit
NounEdit
winter
ReferencesEdit
- Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words]. Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien.
DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle Dutch winter, from Old Dutch *wintar, from Proto-Germanic *wintruz.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
winter m (plural winters, diminutive wintertje n)
See alsoEdit
- (seasons) seizoen, jaargetijde; lente/voorjaar, zomer, herfst/najaar, winter (Category: nl:Seasons)
Middle DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Dutch *wintar, from Proto-Germanic *wintruz.
NounEdit
winter m
InflectionEdit
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “winter”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- “winter”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929
Middle EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old English winter; in turn from Proto-Germanic *wintruz.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
winter (plural winteres or winters)
DescendantsEdit
See alsoEdit
Seasons in Middle English · sesounes (layout · text) | |||
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lenten, spring | somer | hervest, autumpne | winter |
Old EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Germanic *wintruz, whence also Old Frisian winter, Old High German and Old Saxon wintar, Old Norse vetr and vintr, Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌽𐍄𐍂𐌿𐍃 (wintrus). Perhaps represents a nasalised variant of Proto-Indo-European *wed- (whence also English water, wet); but perhaps akin to Old English winistre (“left (side)”), with original sense possibly a cardinal direction or possibly "unfavorable" [2].
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
winter m
DeclensionEdit
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
See alsoEdit
Seasons in Old English · tīde (layout · text) | |||
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lencten (“spring”) | sumor (“summer”) | hærfest (“autumn”) | winter (“winter”) |
ScotsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English winter, from Old English winter, from Proto-Germanic *wintruz.
NounEdit
winter (plural winters)
West FrisianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Frisian winter, from Proto-Germanic *wintruz. Compare Dutch and English winter, German Winter, Danish vinter.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
winter c (plural winters)
See alsoEdit
Seasons in West Frisian · seizoenen (layout · text) | |||
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maaitiid (“spring”), foarjier (“spring”) | simmer (“summer”) | hjerst (“autumn”), neijier (“autumn”) | winter (“winter”) |