Monday Word: Brumal

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

brumal [broo-muhl ]

adjective

1. related to winter

Examples:
1. Her brother wintered at Welland; but whether because his experience of tropic climes had unfitted him for the brumal rigours of Britain, or for some other reason, he seldom showed himself out of doors, and Swithin caught but passing glimpses of him. Two on a Tower, Thomas Hardy, 1884
2. During the previous night, however, the sky had cleared, and now the air was filled with those familiar brumal sounds, the scraping of shovels and the ringing of sleighbells, that usually make such a pleasant appeal to those within-doors; but the bishop was merely moved to impatient longing for the spring. The Mayor of Warwick Herbert M. Hopkins, 1890

Origin:
Latin brūmālis, from brūma, winter, from *brevima (diēs), the shortest (day) or winter solstice.

Comments

[prettygoodword]

See also brumous, from the same root, but meaning misty/foggy.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Very nice! I feel like brumal is one most people who like words know, but I couldn't think of anything better for the season.

[sallymn]

I love it :)

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you!