The story
- Latin · derived fromaestīvō, aestīvāre“to spend or pass the summer in a place”
- Latin · borrowed fromaestīvātiō
- English todayaestivation
Borrowed from Latin aestīvātiō, from Latin aestīvō, aestīvāre (“to spend or pass the summer in a place”), from aestīvus (“of or pertaining to summer”), from aestās (“summer”) + -īvus.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.