Word of the Day: Aestivate (or Estivate)

(Verb)

Pronunciation: ['es-tê-veyt]

Definition: Spend the summer, especially in a dormant state (antonym of "hibernate").

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Usage: The adjective is "aestival" and the noun, "aestivation." Bears hibernate through the winter; desert amphibians aestivate during the hot, dry season.

Suggested Usage: Do you speak fast and find the long phrases like "spend my summers" slowing you down? Try: "I aestivate in Florida" to save your breath. Perhaps you enjoy some aestival festival, like the Hog-calling Jamboree in Chinquapin, North Carolina each year. So, say so!

Etymology: From Latin aestivare "to spend the summer somewhere" from aestas "summer." Akin to Sanskrit indh "to kindle" and Old High German eiten "to heat" which gave Modern German Hitze "heat."

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