# clima
## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin clīma, from Ancient Greek κλῐ́μᾰ (klĭ́mă, “region, zone”), from κλῐ́νω (klĭ́nō, “to slope, incline”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈkli.mə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈkli.ma]
* Rhymes: -ima

### Noun

clima m (plural climes)
* climate

#### Derived terms

* paleoclima

#### Related terms

* climàtic
* climatologia

### Further reading

* “clima” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
* “clima” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “clima”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “clima” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## Galician
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈklima/ [ˈkli.mɐ]
* Rhymes: -ima
* Hyphenation: cli‧ma

### Noun

clima m (plural climas)
* climate

## Italian
### Alternative forms

* climate, climato (dated)

### Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin clīma, from Ancient Greek κλῐ́μᾰ (klĭ́mă, “region, zone”), from κλῐ́νω (klĭ́nō, “I slope, incline”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkli.ma/
* Audio::(file)
* Rhymes: -ima
* Hyphenation: clì‧ma

### Noun

clima m (plural climi)
* climate
    Synonym: tempo — proscribed
* (informal) air conditioner
    Synonyms: condizionatore, aria condizionata
* (informal) mood

#### Derived terms

* acclimatare

#### Related terms

* climatico
* climatizzare
* climatologia
* climatoterapia

### Further reading

* clima in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
* clima in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
* clima in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
* clìma in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
* clima in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
* clima in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

### Anagrams

* Milca, calmi, clami

## Latin
### Etymology

From Ancient Greek κλῐ́μᾰ (klĭ́mă, “region, zone of latitude”, originally “slope”), from κλῐ́νω (klĭ́nō, “I slope, incline”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈkli.ma/, [ˈklʲɪmä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈkli.ma/, [ˈkliːmä]

### Noun

clima n (genitive climatis); third declension
* (mathematics) slope, inclination
    Synonym: inclinatio
* (historical units of measure) A Roman unit of area equivalent to a square with sides of 60 Roman feet.
* (Late Latin) climate, clime
* (Late Latin, figuratively) region

#### Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

#### Meronyms

* decempeda ($^1$⁄$_{36}$ clima); actus (4 climata); iugera (8 climata); heredium (16 climata); centuria (1600 climata); saltus (6400 climata)

#### Related terms

* climacis

##### Descendants

* Spanish: clima

### References

* “clima”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* "clima", 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)
* clima in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* “clima”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “clima”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

## Lombard
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈklima/

### Noun

clima m
* climate

### Further reading

* clima on the Lombard Wiktionary.Wiktionary $^{lmo}$

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From Late Latin clīma, from Ancient Greek κλῐ́μᾰ (klĭ́mă, “region, zone”), from κλῐ́νω (klĭ́nō, “to slope, incline”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- (“to lean”).

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈklĩ.mɐ/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈklĩ.mɐ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈkli.ma/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈkli.mɐ/
* Rhymes: -imɐ
* Hyphenation: cli‧ma

### Noun

clima m (plural climas)
* climate (long-term manifestations of weather)
* (informal) mood; atmosphere (as in the situation)

#### Quotations

* For quotations using this term, see Citations:clima.

#### Derived terms

* bioclima
* climão
* microclima
* paleoclima

#### Related terms

* aclimatar
* climático
* climatismo
* climatizar

#### Descendants

* → Tetum: klima

### Further reading

* “clima”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
* “clima”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
* “clima” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
* “clima”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
* “clima”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin clīma (“climate”), from Ancient Greek κλῐ́μᾰ (klĭ́mă, “region, zone”), from κλῐ́νω (klĭ́nō, “to slope, to incline”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈklima/ [ˈkli.ma]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -ima
* Syllabification: cli‧ma

### Noun

clima m (plural climas)
* (weather) climate, weather

#### Derived terms

* aclimatar
* clima artificial
* microclima

#### Related terms

* climático
* climatizar (verb)

### Further reading

* “clima”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10