Apricity is a hiemal word!

by

Balaji Devarajan, Class of 2022

I’ll remember this winter for the depressing stretch of gloomy, cloudy, foggy, and wet weather for an entire week between Jan 21st and 27th. After a long wait, there was light at the end of the week.

That Sunday Jan 28th was literally a SUN-day as the sun shone bright on a clear sky. That’s also when I came across a new word “apricity”. It means the “warmth of the sun in winter”. How appropriate? It was still a cold winter day, but the sunlight made a lot of difference, and I enjoyed the apricity while volunteering at the Connemara Meadow.

When I looked up the meaning of apricity, I also picked up “hiemal” which means “relating to winter”. Hence the title of this short note!

Past weather source: Timeanddate.com
Read more here: https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/winter-words

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