nevar

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See also: Nevar and ñevar

Aragonese

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Etymology

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From Vulgar Latin *nevāre, ultimately from Latin nivem (snow, noun).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /neˈba(ɾ)/
  • Rhymes: -a(ɾ)
  • Syllabification: ne‧var

Verb

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nevar

  1. to snow

References

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  • nevar”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)

Asturian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Vulgar Latin *nevāre, ultimately from Latin nivem (snow, noun).

Verb

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nevar

  1. to snow
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Catalan

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Etymology

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Inherited from Vulgar Latin *nevāre, ultimately from Latin nivem (snow, noun).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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nevar (first-person singular present nevo, first-person singular preterite neví, past participle nevat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /e/

  1. (impersonal) to snow
    En Toronto sempre neva en hivern.It always snows in Toronto in the winter.

Conjugation

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Forms other than the third person are rarely used except in a poetic sense.

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Galician

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Etymology

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From Old Galician-Portuguese *nevar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin *nevāre, ultimately from Latin nivem (snow, noun).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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nevar (first-person singular present nevo, first-person singular preterite nevei, past participle nevado)

  1. to snow

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Latvian

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Verb

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nevar

  1. third-person singular/plural present indicative of nevarēt
  2. (with the particle lai) third-person singular imperative of nevarēt
  3. (with the particle lai) third-person plural imperative of nevarēt

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Noun

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nevar m

  1. indefinite plural of neve

Occitan

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Etymology

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From Old Occitan nevar, from Vulgar Latin *nevāre, ultimately from Latin nivem (snow, noun).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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nevar

  1. to snow

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Dialectal variants

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Old Spanish

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Etymology

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From Vulgar Latin *nevāre, ultimately from Latin nivem (snow, noun). First attested in Alfonso X's General Estoria (see quotation).

Verb

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nevar

  1. (intransitive, impersonal) to snow
    • ca. 1275, Alfonso X, General Estoria Primera parte, (ed. by Pedro Sánchez Pietro-Borja, 2002, Alcalá de Henares: Universidad de Alcalá de Henares):
      E cuenta otrossí que los omnes d'aquella tierra que lo catan fallan por cosa provada que de la manera que nieva e llueve en tierra de Mauritaña ó es aquella fuent que d'essa guisa crece o mingua el Nilo.
      And he says, moreover, that men of that land observe, and find it proven, that depending on how it snows or rains in Mauritania, where that source is found, thus the Nile increases or decreases.

Descendants

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  • Ladino: inyevar
  • Spanish: nevar

Portuguese

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Etymology

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From Old Galician-Portuguese *nevar, from Vulgar Latin *nevāre, ultimately from Latin nivem (snow, noun). By surface analysis, neve (snow) +‎ -ar.

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Verb

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nevar (impersonal, third-person singular present neva, third-person singular preterite nevou, past participle nevado)

  1. (impersonal) to snow (to have snow fall from the sky)
    Synonym: (Northern Portugal) folecar

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Spanish

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Spanish nevar, from Vulgar Latin *nevāre, ultimately from Latin nivem (snow, noun).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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nevar (first-person singular present nievo, first-person singular preterite nevé, past participle nevado)

  1. (intransitive, impersonal) to snow
  2. (transitive) to whiten, add white colour to something

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