2007-10-24 08:57:12 · 9 answers · asked by annieS 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Botany
They do: vernal, aesteval and hibernal respectively..... it is just autumnal is more commonly used, with vernal slightly less used, but as summery and wintery are easier to say, aesteval and hibernal are largely redundant now....
2007-10-24 09:14:58 · answer #1 · answered by eriverpipe 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It has the same form as vernal because the two are antonyms.
Autumnal, Latin, refers to the time of year harvesting is done, or of the autumn.
Vernal means of the spring and is also derived from Latin. Their form would only compare to Latin words for summer or winter. There is a six season terminology; Hiemal is of the winter, Prevernal is of the early spring, Estival is of the early summer, Serotinal is of the late summer. These words are still used in papers to designates seasonal periods. The six season terminology is used in discussing aspection or seasonal vegetative changes; flowers in vernal, green fruit in estival, ripe fruit in serotinal, and bare branches in hibernal.
Summer and winter are words that came to us through Old English from Norse.
The Norse words do not have any lingual relationship with the Latin other than they all refer to calendar periods.
2007-10-24 16:32:58 · answer #2 · answered by gardengallivant 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The vernal equinox is in the spring, so spring has an "al" word associated with it. It has to do with Latin roots of the words. I'm sure the latin words for summer and winter have "al" at the end, or at least the same suffixes.
2007-10-24 16:08:40 · answer #3 · answered by FSM Raguru AM™ 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I use autumnal, spring-like, summery and wintery. It's just one of peculiarities of the English language, I reckon.
2007-10-24 16:40:26 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The proper term for Spring is 'Vernal' as in equinox.
2007-10-24 16:00:24 · answer #5 · answered by Robert S 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
There is no term for "summeral" or "winteral." Just "vernal" and "autumnal."
That's why - it's a failure of language.
2007-10-24 16:02:15 · answer #6 · answered by Brian L 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I don't know, but you can have summery - summery dress or wintery I thought you could have wintery weather but spell check doesn't recognise it. You can have springy as well of course but that isn't weather related.
2007-10-24 16:02:28 · answer #7 · answered by Grinning Football plinny younger 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i never knew autumnal was a word haha prolly cuz they sound weirder "summeral" "winteral" "springal"
2007-10-24 15:59:54 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
...??? Why does April have 'il' at the end whereas december, october and november all have 'er' on the end....?
2007-10-24 16:00:17 · answer #9 · answered by vEngful.Gibb0n 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋