autumnal

English

Etymology

autumn +‎ -al

Pronunciation

(US) IPA^(key): /ɔˈtʌmnəɫ/
(UK) IPA^(key): /ɔːˈtʌmnəl/

Adjective

autumnal (comparative more autumnal, superlative most autumnal)

Of or relating to autumn.
Past the middle of life; in the third stage.
- 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter:
  "The magistrates are God-fearing gentlemen, but merciful over-much,--that is a truth," added a third autumnal matron.

Hypernyms

(of or relating to autumn): seasonal

Coordinate terms

(pertaining to seasons): spring, vernal; summer (summery), aestival/estival; winter (wintry), hibernal, brumal

Derived terms

aestivoautumnal, estivoautumnal
autumnal equinox
autumnal hawkbit
autumnally
autumnal moth
autumnal point
autumnal signs
autumnal star
Russian autumnal encephalitis

autumnal in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Translations

of or relating to autumn

Armenian: աշնանային (hy) (ašnanayin)
Belarusian: восеньскі (vósjenʹski), асенні (asjenni)
Bulgarian: есенен (esenen)
Catalan: autumnal
Czech: podzimní (cs)
Finnish: syksyinen (fi), syksyn (fi) (genitive of the noun)
French: automnal (fr)
Old French: autumnal
Galician: outonal (gl)
German: Herbst- (de), herbstlich (de)
Greek: φθινοπωρινός (el) (fthinoporinós), φθινοπωριάτικος (el) (fthinoporiátikos)
Hungarian: őszies
Icelandic: haust-, haustlegur m
Ido: autunala (io)
Italian: autunnale (it)
Kalmyk: намрин (namrin)

Latin: autumnalis
Latvian: rudens
Persian: پاییزی‎‎ (fa) (pâyizi)
Polish: jesienny (pl) m
Portuguese: outonal (pt)
Romanian: tomnatic (ro), de toamnă
Russian: осе́нний (ru) (osénnij)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: јесенски

Roman: jesenski (sh)
Spanish: otoñal (es), autumnal (es)
Swedish: höstlig (sv), höst-
Ukrainian: осі́нній (osínnij)
Welsh: hydrefol (cy)
Zazaki: payıze

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin autumnalis.

Adjective

autumnal m (oblique and nominative feminine singular autumnale)

autumnal

Descendants

French: automnal

References

“automnal” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin autumnālis.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /autumˈnal/, [au̯t̪ũmˈnal]

Adjective

autumnal (plural autumnales)

autumnal
Synonym: otoñal

Further reading

“autumnal” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

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