SEASON (0. Fr. seson, seison, mod. saison, Lat. satio, sowing time, the spring, from serere, to sow; in Late Lat. the word is found with its present meaning, the spring being considered as particularly the season of the year)

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SEASON (0. Fr. seson, seison, mod. saison, Lat. satio, sowing time, the spring, from serere, to sow; in Late Lat. the word is found with its present meaning, the spring being considered as particularly the season of the year) , a period of

time

TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the
root
- ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
- ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )
also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
TIME, STANDARD

, in particular, that of the four periods into which the year is divided by the changing of the temperature, rainfall, and growth and decay of vegetation due to the

annual

ANNUAL

motion of the sun in declination. Divided strictly according to this motion the year falls into four nearly equal seasons, "

spring

SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger.
springer
- SPRINGER (Fr. rein)
- SPRINGER, ANTON HEINRICH (1825–1891)
, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

" (i.e. the springing

time

TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the
root
- ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
- ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )
also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
TIME, STANDARD

, when vegetation rises or shoots), " summer " (O. Eng. Sumer, cf. Dutch zomer, Ger. Sommer, probably connected with Skt.

soma

SOMA (Sanskrit for " pressed juice," from the root su, to
press
- PRESS (through Fr. presse from Lat. pressare, frequentative of premere, to crush, squeeze, press)
)

, year), autumn " (Lat. autumnus, auctumnus, from augere, to increase, the period of ripening or fruiting) and "

winter

WINTER, JOHN STRANGE
WINTER, PETER (c. 1755-1825)

(common Teutonic, possibly a nasalized form. of root seen in " wet "). (See further CLIMATE,

METEOROLOGY

METEOROLOGY (Gr. JerEwpa, and hb'yos, i.e. the science of things in the air)

.)

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