Meanings
comparative more aestiferous · superlative most aestiferous · alternative æstiferous · alternative estiferous
- not comparableobsoleteAs the tide, turbulent; ebbing and flowing.
Thus they, estiferous, the hollow sphere Within, rack’d, and raged against the Highest.
1859: John D. Bryant, M. D., Redemption, a Poem, page 241 (John Penington & Son) - comparablefigurativelyProducing much (aestival) heat.
Moreover, if the analogy to political revolution teaches anything at all, its instruction would seem to be that revolution is a wasteful and excessively estiferous process.
1979, J. Ron Stanfield, Economic Thought and Social Change, Southern Illinois University Press, →ISBN, page 148, →ISBN
Origin
- Latinaestus“heat, tide”
- Englishaestiferous
From Latin aestus (“heat, tide”) + -ferous (“bearing, bringing”).
More words from Latin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Ancient Greek θερμογόνος
- θερμογόνος (thermogónos)producing much heat
Welsh gwresddwyn, gwresddygol
- gwresddwynproducing much heat
- gwresddygolproducing much heat
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with aestiferous
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