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vernare
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Italian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin vernāre (“to be verdant; to be lively”).
Verb
vernàre (first-person singular present vèrno, first-person singular past historic vernài, past participle vernàto, auxiliary avére) (archaic, intransitive)
- to bring spring, to be vernal
- 1316–c. 1321, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXX”, in Paradiso [Heaven], lines 124–126; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 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
- Into the yellow of the Rose Eternal
- to sing during spring [auxiliary avere] (of birds)
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Etymology 2
From verno (“winter”) + -are (1st conjugation verbal suffix).
Verb
vernàre (first-person singular present vèrno, first-person singular past historic vernài, past participle vernàto, auxiliary avére) (literary, intransitive)
- to winter (to spend the winter) [auxiliary avere]
- Synonym: svernare
- 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXIV”, in Purgatorio [Purgatory], lines 64–69; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 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 […]
- Even as the birds, that winter towards the Nile,
- to experience the climate of winter [auxiliary avere]
- (impersonal, rare) to worsen (as in winter) [auxiliary avere] (of weather)
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Further reading
- vernare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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