What is the romanized Russian word for "winter"?

The story behind the answer

Zima is correct because the Russian word for “winter” is зима, romanized as zima. The other options are the other seasons: leto (лето) is summer, vesna (весна) is spring, and osen’ (осень) is autumn.

A helpful memory trick: think “Z is for zero degrees,” matching winter’s cold. The root zim- appears in related words like zimniy (“wintery”) and in the “Winter Palace” in St. Petersburg, Zimniy D