winter

From Dutch winter, from Middle Dutch winter, from Old Dutch winter, from Proto-Germanic *wintruz.


winter

Carcoforo: ustogFormazza: langséGressoney: ustagIssime: oustagaRimella: üstàg

From Middle High German winter, from Old High German wintar, from Proto-Germanic *wintruz. Cognate with German Winter, Dutch winter, English winter, Swedish vinter.

wenter (alternative)
wénter (alternative)


winter

De winter van dat jaar was bijzonder koud.

The winter of that year was exceptionally cold.

Kinderen speelden in de sneeuw tijdens de winter.

Children played in the snow during the winter.

Het wintertje was mild en aangenaam.

nl-noun

winter m (plural winters, diminutive wintertje n)

winters (plural)
wintertje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: winter

Negerhollands: winter

→ Sranan Tongo: wenter

From Middle Dutch winter, from Old Dutch winter, from Proto-Germanic *wintruz.


winter

Ne take noon hede to brynge togidere þe parties of þe boon þat is to-broken or dislocate, til viij. daies ben goon in þe wyntir, & v. in þe somer; for þanne it schal make quytture, and be sikir from swellynge; & þanne brynge togidere þe brynkis eiþer þe disiuncture after þe techynge þat schal be seid in þe chapitle of algebra.

a1420, The British Museum Additional MS, 12,056, “Wounds complicated by the Dislocation of a Bone”, in Robert von Fleischhacker, editor, Lanfranc's "Science of cirurgie.", London: K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co, translation of original by Lanfranc of Milan, published 1894, →ISBN, page 63:

And after summer evermore succeeds
 Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold.

It cannot be denied it [the chameleon] is (if not the moſt of any) a very abſtemious animall, and ſuch as by reaſon of its frigidity, paucity of bloud, and latitancy in the winter (about which time the obſervations are often made) will long ſubſist without a viſible ſuſtentation.

1650, Thomas Browne, “Of the Cameleon”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC, 3rd book, page 133:

There shall he learn, ere sixteen winters old,
That …

1785, William Cowper, “Tirocinium: or, A Review of Schools." in The Poems of William Cowper, Vol. II., The Press of C. Whittingham (1822), page 174

[…] a woman, tall, and strong of aspect, of some thirty winters by seeming, [...]

1897, William Morris, The Water of the Wondrous Isles, volume I, Longmans, Green and Co., published 1914, page 2:

Traditionally the fourth of the four seasons, typically regarded as being from December to February in continental regions of the Northern Hemisphere or the months of June, July, and August in the Southern Hemisphere. It is the time when the sun is lowest in the sky, resulting in short days, and the time of year with the lowest atmospheric temperatures for the region.

Life's autumn past, I stand on winter's verge.

1814, William Wordsworth, The Excursion:

Buterin seemed to sense that the market was out of balance, and he made a smart decision that helped Ethereum weather the crypto winter and continue to build while the market was down.

2023, Ben Armstrong, Catching Up to Crypto, page 78:

(figuratively, poetic) The period of decay, old age, death, or the like.

(countable, fashion) Someone with dark skin, eyes and hair, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing.

(obsolete) An appliance to be fixed on the front of a grate, to keep a kettle warm, etc.

Note that the Citie of Goa is the principall place of all the Oriental India, and the winter thus beginneth the 15 of May, with very great raine.

The Winter heere beginneth about the first of Iune and dureth till the twentieth of September, but not with continuall raines as at Goa, but for some sixe or seuen dayes every change and full, with much wind, thunder and raine.

In Winter (when they rarely stir) they have a Mumjama, or Wax Cloth to throw over it […]

The mere breadth of these mountains divides summer from winter, that is to say, the season of fine weather from the rainy […] all that is meant by winter in India is the time of the year when the clouds […] are driven violently by the winds against the mountains, […]

en-noun

winter (countable and uncountable, plural winters)

аʒын

fourth season, marked by short days and the lowest temperatures

From Middle English winter, from Old English winter, from Proto-Germanic *wintruz (“winter”). Cognate with West Frisian winter (“winter”), Dutch winter (“winter”), German Winter (“winter”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian vinter (“winter”), Icelandic vetur (“winter”).


winter

When they retired, they hoped to winter in Florida.

Those who seek to invade another country anywhere across the great Eurasian steppes are condemned eventually to winter in it.

2022 December 27, “Ukraine war: Five ways conflict could go in 2023”, in BBC News:

(intransitive) To spend the winter (in a particular place).

(transitive) To store something (for instance animals) somewhere over winter to protect it from cold.

en-verb

winter (third-person singular simple present winters, present participle wintering, simple past and past participle wintered)

winters (present singular third-person)
wintering (participle present)
wintered (participle past)
wintered (past)
Winter (alternative)

ձմեռել

spend the winter, as in a particular place on holiday


winter

desctree

Dutch: winter
Afrikaans: winter
Negerhollands: winter
→ Sranan Tongo: wenter

Limburgish: wintjer

From Old Dutch winter, from Proto-Germanic *wintruz.


winter

⁊ ð laſtede þa ·xix· ƿintre ƿile Stephne ƿaſ king ⁊ æure it ƿaſ uuerſe ⁊ uuerſe.

p. 1154, “AD 1137”, in Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (MS. Laud Misc. 636, continuation), Peterborough, folio 89, verso; republished at Oxford: Digital Bodleian, 2018 February 8:

And this lasted the 19 winters when Stephen was king, and it continually got worse and worse.

wintres (plural)
wintere (alternative)
wintre (alternative)
wynter (alternative)

English: winter

Scots: winter

Yola: wonter

From Old English winter, from Proto-West Germanic *wintru, from Proto-Germanic *wintruz.


winter

ein (indefinite nominative singular)
dër (definite nominative singular)
winter (nominative noun singular)
die (definite nominative plural)
winter (nominative noun plural)
wintere (nominative noun plural)
eines (genitive indefinite singular)
dës (definite genitive singular)
winters (genitive noun singular)
winteres (genitive noun singular)
dër (definite genitive plural)
winter (genitive noun plural)
wintere (genitive noun plural)
eime (dative indefinite singular)
dëm (dative definite singular)
winter (dative noun singular)
wintere (dative noun singular)
dën (dative definite plural)
wintern (dative noun plural)
winteren (dative noun plural)
einen (accusative indefinite singular)
dën (accusative definite singular)
winter (accusative noun singular)
die (accusative definite plural)
winter (accusative noun plural)
wintere (accusative noun plural)
winder (alternative)

Alemannic German: Winter

Italian Walser: wénter, winter, wenter

Swabian: Wender

Bavarian: Winta

Cimbrian: bintar

Mòcheno: binter

Udinese: binter, bintar

Central Franconian: Wenter, Wengter (Ripuarian, now chiefly western dialects), Wonter, Wönter (Eifel)
Hunsrik: Winter
Luxembourgish: Wanter

German: Winter

East Central German:

Silesian East Central German: Winter

Vilamovian: wynter

Yiddish: ווינטער (vinter)

From Old High German wintar, from Proto-West Germanic *wintru, from Proto-Germanic *wintruz.


winter

winter (nominative singular)
wintera (nominative plural)
winter (accusative singular)
wintera (accusative plural)
winteres (genitive singular)
wintero (genitive plural)
wintere (dative singular)
winteron (dative plural)

desctree

Middle Dutch: winter
Dutch: winter
Afrikaans: winter
Negerhollands: winter
→ Sranan Tongo: wenter
Limburgish: wintjer


winter

late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History
...þis ēalond hafað myċele lengran dagas on sumera, ⁊ swā ēac nihta on wintra, þonne ðā sūðdǣlas middanġeardes.

...this island has much longer days in the summer, and equally longer nights in the winter, than the southern parts of the world..

The Dialogues of Solomon and Saturn
Iċ ðē seċġe lxxx wintra of ðām trēowcynne ðe is nemned Sem.

I tell thee, eighty years, of the wood that is called Sem

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
An. DCCXLI Hēr Æþelheard cing forðferde, ⁊ feng Cūþrēd tō Westseaxna rīċe, ⁊ heold XXVI wintra, ⁊ heardlīċe hē ġewann wiþ Æþelwald cing. ⁊ Cūþbriht wæs tō arċebisċeope ġehālgod, ⁊ Dunn bisċeop tō Hrofesċeastre.

Year 741 In this year King Aethelhard died, and Cuthred ascended to the West Saxon throne. He held it for 26 years, and fought bravely against King Aethelwald. And Cuthbright was ordained archbishop, and Dunn ordained bishop of Rochester.

winter (nominative singular)
wintras (nominative plural)
winter (accusative singular)
wintras (accusative plural)
wintres (genitive singular)
wintra (genitive plural)
wintre (dative singular)
wintra (dative singular)
wintrum (dative plural)

Middle English: winter, wintere, wintre, wynter
English: winter
Scots: winter
Yola: wonter

From earlier *wintr < *wintru, from Proto-Germanic *wintruz. Cognate with Old Frisian winter, Old Saxon wintar, Old Dutch winter, Old High German wintar, Old Norse vetr, Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌽𐍄𐍂𐌿𐍃 (wintrus).


winter

From Middle English winter, from Old English winter, from Proto-Germanic *wintruz.


winter

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winter c (plural winters, diminutive winterke)

From Old Frisian winter, from Proto-Germanic *wintruz.