hiems

• hiemps (usual but advised against by analogist grammarians)
• hyems

From Proto-Italic *hiem-, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰéyōm or similar.

Cognate with Ancient Greek χιών (khiṓn, “snow”), χεῖμα (kheîma, “snow”), χειμών (kheimṓn, “snow”), Persian زمستان (zemestân), Albanian dimër, Welsh gaeaf, Sanskrit हिम (himá), Hittite 𒄀𒈠𒀭 (gi-ma-an /⁠giman⁠/), Armenian ձմեռ (jmeṙ), and Proto-Slavic *zima.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈhi.ɛmps]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈiː.ems]
• Note the epenthesis of the homorganic stop [p] required to maintain the place of articulation of the stem-final /m/, as also in sūmpsī, temptō etc.

hiems f (genitive hiemis); third declension

1. winter

   Synonym: (Late Latin) hībernum

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 3.235–236:

     quid, quod hiems adoperta gelū tunc dēnique cēdit, et pereunt lāpsae sōle tepente nivēs

     What of the fact that then frost-covered winter finally gives way, and the snows perish, melted in the warming sun; [...]. (trans. Anne and Peter Wiseman, 2011)

2. storm, stormy weather, tempest

Third-declension noun.

• hībernum

• “hiems”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “hiems”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "hiems", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• hiems in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • in the height of summer, depth of winter: summa aestate, hieme
    
  • winter is at hand: hiems subest