In the Northern Hemisphere the autumnal equinox falls about September 22 or 23, as the Sun crosses the celestial equator going south. Shutterstock Editor’s Note: This is the third in a four-part series on the wisdom of the seasons. Many "autumn" words mean "end, end of summer," or "harvest." Compare Greek phthinoporon "waning of summer " Lithuanian ruduo "autumn," from rudas "reddish," in reference to leaves Old Irish fogamar, literally "under-winter. autumnal equinox, two moments in the year when the Sun is exactly above the Equator and day and night are of equal length also, either of the two points in the sky where the ecliptic (the Sun’s annual pathway) and the celestial equator intersect. Autumn in Hurd Park, Dover, New Jersey, features fall foliage on cherry trees. Compare Italian autunno, Spanish otoño, Portuguese outono, all from the Latin word.Īs de Vaan notes, autumn's names across the Indo-European languages leave no evidence that there ever was a common word for it. Astronomically, from the descending equinox to the winter solstice in Britain, the season is popularly August through October in U.S., September through November. Harvest (n.) was the English name for the season until autumn began to displace it 16c. Perhaps it is from Etruscan, but Tucker suggests a meaning "drying-up season" and a root in *auq- (which would suggest the form in -c- was the original) and compares archaic English sere-month "August." De Vaan writes, "Although 'summer', 'winter' and 'spring' are inherited IE words in Latin, a foreign origin of autumnus is conceivable, since we cannot reconstruct a PIE word for 'autumn'". Season after summer and before winter, late 14c., autumpne (modern form from 16c.), from Old French autumpne, automne (13c.), from Latin autumnus (also auctumnus, perhaps influenced by auctus "increase"), which is of unknown origin. What is an equinox Equinoxes and solstices in your city Autumn Equinox, Northern Hemisphere (September) North America, Europe, most of Asia, Northern Africa In Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, USA: Saturday, Septemat 2:50 am EDT (Change location) This corresponds to Saturday, Septemat 06:50 UTC.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |