The story
- Latin · derived frombrūmālis“of or pertaining to the winter solstice; wintry”
- English todaybrumal
From Latin brūmālis (“of or pertaining to the winter solstice; wintry”), from brūma (“the winter solstice; winter”), which is a contraction of *brevima (“the shortest (day)”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.