From Middle English climat, from Old French climat, from Latin clima, from Ancient Greek κλίμα.

• IPA: /ˈklaɪ.mɪt/
• (weak vowel) IPA: /ˈklaɪ.mət/

climate

1. The long-term manifestations of weather and other atmospheric conditions in a given area or country, now usually represented by the statistical summary of its weather conditions during a period long enough to ensure that representative values are obtained (generally 30 years).
   • 2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns‎:

     And the effects from climate change are already extreme.

2. (figuratively) The context in general of a particular political, moral, etc., situation.

   Industries that require a lot of fossil fuels are unlikely to be popular in the current political climate.

3. (obsolete) An area of the earth's surface between two parallels of latitude.
4. (obsolete) A region of the Earth.

• client
• climatic
• climatory
• climax
• cline
• clivus
• lean

• French: climat
• German: Klima
• Italian: clima
• Portuguese: clima
• Russian: кли́мат
• Spanish: clima

• French: climat
• German: Klima
• Italian: clima
• Portuguese: clima
• Russian: кли́мат
• Spanish: clima

climate (climates, present participle climating; simple past and past participle climated)

1. (poetic, obsolete) To dwell.
   • c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act V, scene i], line 169:

     The blessed gods / Purge all infection from our air whilst you / Do climate here!