Archives for the day of: June 21, 2017
Estivate / Aestivate
Excerpted From: A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg – Wordsmith.org
MEANING verb: To pass the summer in a dormant state.
PRONUNCIATION: (ES-tuh-vayt)
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin aestivare (to spend the summer). Earliest documented use: 1623.
USAGE: “Unlike aquatic species, the turtles have the ability to travel upland and estivate for the remainder of the summer.”
Marta Yamamoto; Popular Berkeley Lake Reduced to a Puddle; The Mercury News (San Jose, California); Sep 17, 2015. 
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