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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=ine-pro *ǵʰéyōm}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * Classical: [ˈhi.ɛ.moː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈiː.e.mo]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''hiemō''' (present infinitive hiemāre, perfect active hiemāvī, supine hiemātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is a denominative verb [[der|la|hiems|t=winter]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) The noun [[m|la|hiems]] goes back to [[ine-pro|*ǵʰéyōm|t=winter]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary) Cognate with [[sa|हिम|tr=himá-|t=cold, frost]], [[hit|gimm-|t=winter]] and [[sga|gaim|t=winter]].^(de Vaan 2008)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ Its first example in the OLD is Cicero's letter to Atticus: “I hope you are wintering pleasantly there”.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It means to pass the winter, and especially of troops to be in winter quarters;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero also uses it of pirates who wintered in a place every year.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Of the weather and the sea it is to be wintry or stormy, as Horace's black stormy sea.^(OLD 2012) Pliny the Elder uses it transitively of a lake made wintry by the autumn star.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of wintering and of pirates' winter quarters.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 65–8 BC – Horace of a stormy sea.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder of a lake made wintry.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Verb===
+ # To pass the [[m|en|winter]]; of troops, to be in winter quarters.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)
+ # To be wintry or [[m|en|stormy]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
+ # To make wintry; to [[m|en|freeze]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[hiemātiō]]
+ * [[perhiemō]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[hiems]]
+ * [[hiberno|alt=hībernō]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}