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I can’t to seem to nail down what the word for ice is. latin-dictionary.net gives variants on gelum and crystallum, but Wiktionary disagrees.

English Latin Notes
autumn autumnus, -i
winter hiems, -is
rain pluuia, -ae
snow nix, niuis A rare monosyllabic noun
acorn glans, -andis
chestnut castanea, -ae
apple malum, -i
blackberry rubus, -i
frost gelu, -us
stag ceruus, -i These rutting in the autumn
bear ursus, -i These gathering food for hibernation
bath balneum, -ei Irregular declension
boar aper, -ri Boar just feel autumnal, with the nemora frondosa and all that
oak quercus, -us eg. falling oak leaves
hot spiced wine caldum, -i
mead hydromel, -melitis Probably also quite nice warm
pine pinus, -i / -us Uncommon 2nd dec. / 4th dec. noun
fire ignis, is
hearth focus, -i
beer ceruesia, -ae
winter solstice bruma, -ae

Now my head is full of wonderful images of ancient, rural Italy as the orange quercus leaves begin to fall, and poor families go out gathering the castaneae in the cool morning air.

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