aestival

• estival (US)
• æstival

From Latin aestivalis.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /iːˈstʌɪv(ə)l/, /ˈiːstɪv(ə)l/, /ɛˈstʌɪv(ə)l/, /ˈɛstʌɪv(ə)l/

aestival (comparative more aestival, superlative most aestival)

1. Of or relating to summer.
   • 1938, James Agee, Knoxville: Summer of 1915:

     A horse, drawing a buggy, breaking his hollow iron music on the asphalt; a loud auto, a quiet auto; people in pairs, not in a hurry, scuffling, switching their weight of aestival body, talking casually; the taste hovering over them of vanilla, strawberry, pasteboard, and starched milk; the image upon them of lovers and horsemen, squared with clowns in hueless amber.

2. Coming forth in the summer.

• summer (used only before the noun)
• (relating to summer): summery

• brumal
• hibernal

• prevernal
• vernal
• autumnal
• serotinal

• aestivate

• availest, salivate