aestas

== Latin == === Etymology === 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. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈae̯s.taːs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈɛs.tas] === Noun === aestās f (genitive aestātis); third declension summer ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== aestīvus ==== Related terms ==== aestus ==== Descendants ==== === References === === Further reading === “aestas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “aestas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “aestas”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “aestas”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 24: Refonte A–Aorte, page 229