brumalis

brūmālis, e, adj. [bruma].

I.

Of or pertaining to the winter solstice, or shortest day:

dies,

Cic. Div. 2, 14, 33; id. Fat. 3:

polus,

Varr. L. L. 9, § 24 Müll.:

signum,

Capricorn, Cic. de Or. 3, 45, 178:

flexus,

the tropic of Capricorn, Lucr. 5, 615; 5, 639:

orbis,

Cic. N. D. 3, 14, 37:

tempus,

id. ib. 2, 44, 112:

circulus,

Plin. 2, 70, 70, § 177:

oriens,

Col. 1, 6, 1; Plin. 2, 47, 46, § 119:

occasus, id. l. l.: meridies,

Col. 9, 5, 1:

revocatio,

Cic. Univ. 9: hora, the shortest (since it was the twelfth part of the shortest day), Censor. 16:

solstitium,

Col. 11, 2, 94.—

II.

(Acc. to bruma, II.) Wintry, of winter:

tempus,

Cic. Arat. 61; Ov. Am. 3, 6, 95: brumales hiemis menses (hiemis, perh. gloss; cf.

shortly after: etiam brumali mense),

Plin. 10, 53, 74, § 146:

horae,

the short winter hours, Ov. M. 4, 199:

frigus,

Verg. A. 6, 205; Mart. 13, 16, 1:

nix,

Ov. P. 4, 5, 4:

grando,

id. ib. 4, 7, 34:

venti,

Luc. 5, 407.