Autumn

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Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [1]

1: Φθινοπωρινός (Strong'S #5352 — adjective — phthinoporinos — fthin-op-o-ree-nos' )

an adjective signifying autumnal (from phthinoporon, "late autumn," from phthino, "to waste away," or "wane," and opora, "autumn"), is used in  Jude 1:12 , where unfruitful and worthless men are figuratively described as trees such as they are at the close of "autumn," fruitless and leafless (AV, "trees whose fruit withereth").

Webster's Dictionary [2]

(1): (n.) The harvest or fruits of autumn.

(2): (n.) The time of maturity or decline; latter portion; third stage.

(3): (n.) The third season of the year, or the season between summer and winter, often called "the fall." Astronomically, it begins in the northern temperate zone at the autumnal equinox, about September 23, and ends at the winter solstice, about December 23; but in popular language, autumn, in America, comprises September, October, and November.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [3]

in the mythology of the ancients, was represented as a young man with a basket of fruit in one hand and caressing a dog with the other.

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