243: estival Aug 8, 2014

'Estival', meaning "belonging to or appearing in summer" looks so much like the word 'festival', it might almost seem as if the two are related. This is not the case. 'Estival' comes from 'aestas' which means 'summer' in Latin. That root also begat 'estivate', which is to spend the summer in a torpid state.