brumosus

From brūma +‎ -ōsus. Brūma is derived from brevima, brevissima (“shortest”), the superlative of brevis (“brief; short”) (the winter solstice being the shortest day of the year), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mréǵʰus (“brief, short”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /bruːˈmoː.sus/, [bruːˈmoːs̠ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /bruˈmo.sus/, [bruˈmɔːs̬us]

brūmōsus (feminine brūmōsa, neuter brūmōsum); first/second-declension adjective

1. (Late Latin) wintry
   • ca. 690, Aldhelm, Epistulae 5, (as quoted in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources):

     ex Hiberniae brumosis circionis insulae climatibus

     from the wintry climate of the Irish northwestern island

2. (Late Latin, Medieval Latin) Alternative form of brōmōsus; stinking, fetid, foul-smelling
   • author lived 344/345–411 CE, Tyrannius Rufinus, De Vitis Patrum 3, (as quoted in the Du Cange dictionary):

     Et cum fœteret brumosa aqua odore, non permittebat, ut aliam aquam mutarent.

     And although the foul water smelled bad, he didn't allow others to change the water.

   • 1544, ?, Aesculapius: de morborum ... cura liber experimentarius medicinae , (Strasbourg: published by John Schottum):

     ructant melancholici frequenter calidum, brumosum, fumosum.

     The melancholic [i.e. those with excessive black bile] often belch something hot, foul-smelling, smoky.

First/second-declension adjective.

• Catalan: bromós
• Italian: brumoso
• French: brumeux
  • English: brumous
• Spanish: brumoso
• Occitan: brumós

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