vernare

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Italian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /verˈna.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: ver‧nà‧re

Etymology 1[edit]

Borrowed from Latin vernāre (to be verdant; to be lively).

Verb[edit]

vernàre (first-person singular present vèrno, first-person singular past historic vernài, past participle vernàto, auxiliary avére) (archaic, intransitive)

  1. to bring spring, to be vernal
    • c. 13161321, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXX”, in Paradiso [Heaven]‎[1], lines 124–126; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎[2], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
      Nel giallo de la rosa sempiterna,
      che si digrada e dilata e redole
      odor di lode al sol che sempre verna
      Into the yellow of the Rose Eternal
      that spreads, and multiplies, and breathes
      an odour of praise unto the ever-vernal Sun
  2. to sing during spring [auxiliary avere] (of birds)
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Etymology 2[edit]

From verno (winter) +‎ -are (1st conjugation verbal suffix).

Verb[edit]

vernàre (first-person singular present vèrno, first-person singular past historic vernài, past participle vernàto, auxiliary avére) (literary, intransitive)

  1. to winter (to spend the winter) [auxiliary avere]
    Synonym: svernare
    • early-mid 1310smid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXIV”, in Purgatorio [Purgatory]‎[3], lines 64–69; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎[4], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
      Come li augei che vernan lungo ’l Nilo,
      alcuna volta in aere fanno schiera,
      poi volan più a fretta e vanno in filo
      Even as the birds, that winter towards the Nile,
      sometimes into a phalanx form themselves,
      then fly in greater haste, and go in file []
  2. to experience the climate of winter [auxiliary avere]
  3. (impersonal, rare) to worsen (as in winter) [auxiliary avere] (of weather)
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Further reading[edit]

  • vernare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana