climes definition
The climes (singular clime; also clima, plural climata, from Greek ÎºÎ»Î¯Î¼Î± klima, plural ÎºÎ»Î¯Î¼Î±ÏÎ± klimata, meaning inclination or slope) in classical Greco-Roman geography and astronomy were the divisions of the inhabited portion of the spherical Earth by geographic latitude.