autumnus

1.

auctumnus (correctly aut- ), i, m. ( autumnum, i, n., Varr.ap.Non.p.71, 20). [This word was anciently referred to augeo, as the season of increase, as by Paul. ex Fest. p. 23, 11 Müll.; so Curtius. But Corssen and others, in view of its correct form, autumnus, refer it to the Sanscr. av, to do good to, to satisfy one's self; cf. the Gr. enênês (i.e. enêWês), good, kindly, and 2.aveo, to be well.] The season of abundance, the autumn.

I.

Lit. (from the 22d of September to the 22d of December;

acc. to the designation of the ancients, from the entering of the sun into Libra until the setting of the Pleiades, comprising 91 days,

Varr. R. R. 1, 28 ):

quae temporis quasi naturam notant, hiems, ver, aestas, autumnus,

Cic. Part. Or. 11:

Vites autumno fundi suadente videmus,

Lucr. 1, 175:

Inde autumnus adit,

id. 5, 743:

pomifer,

Hor. C. 4, 7, 11:

varius purpureo colore,

id. ib. 2, 5, 11:

sordidus calcatis uvis,

Ov. M. 2, 29: letifer, sickly (on account of the diseases that prevail in autumn), Juv. 4, 56:

sub autumno,

Ov. A. A. 2, 315:

autumno adulto,

about the middle of autumn, Tac. A. 11, 31:

vergente,

drawing to a close, id. ib. 11, 4:

flexus autumni,

id. H. 5, 23 al. —In plur.:

Frustra per autumnos nocentem Corporibus metuemus Austrum,

Hor. C. 2, 14, 15; Ov. M. 1, 117; 3, 327.—

* II.

Meton., the produce of the autumn, the harvest:

et multa fragrat testa senibus autumnis, i. e. vino vetere,

Mart. 3, 58, 7.

2.

auctumnus (correctly aut- ), a, um, adj. [1. auctumnus], autumnal ( poet. or in post-Aug. prose):

imber,

Cato, R. R. 58:

autumno frigore,

Ov. M. 3, 729 (Merk., autumni frigore ):

sidera,

Manil. 2, 269:

tempus,

id. 2, 425:

pruinae,

Aus. Idyll. 8, 10;

Cod. Th. 2, 8, 2: aequinoctium,

Plin. 19, 6, 33, § 108:

tempestas,

Gell. 19, 7, 2.