estivate

English

Alternative forms

• aestivate, æstivate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛstɪˌveɪt/

Verb

estivate (third-person singular simple present estivates, present participle estivating, simple past and past participle estivated)

1. (intransitive) To go into stasis or torpor in the summer months.

   Coordinate terms: hibernate, brumate

   • 2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, chapter 8, in The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Henry Holt and Company:

     Organisms have developed all sorts of ways of dealing with these variations. They hibernate or estivate or migrate.

Derived terms

• estival
• estivation

Translations

go into stasis in the summer months

Catalan: estiuar (ca) Chinese: 夏眠 (zh) (xiàmián) French: estiver (fr) Italian: estivare Maori: moe raumati Persian: تابستان خفتن (tâbestân xoftan) Spanish: estivar Welsh: hafgysgu

Anagrams

• aviettes, evitates

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

estivate

1. inflection of estivare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

estivate f pl

1. feminine plural of estivato

Anagrams

• evitaste, vestiate, vietaste