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 term: hibernate

   • 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