 Clime

The climes (singular "clime"; also "clima", plural "climata", from Greek κλίμα "klima", plural κλίματα "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.Starting with Aristotle ("Meteorology" 2.5,362a32), the Earth was divided into five zones, assuming two "frigid" climes (the arctic and antarctic) around the poles, an uninhabitable "torrid" clime near the equator, and two "temperate" climes between the frigid and the torrid ones.