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vernatio
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Latin
Etymology
From vernāre (“to be verdant, to flourish”) + -tiō (“-tion: forming abstract nouns”), from vernus (“springlike”) + -āre (verb-forming suffix), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wósr̥.
Noun
vernātiō f (genitive vernātiōnis); third declension
- sloughing, the shedding of old skin by snakes
- slough, the skin thus shed by snakes
- (New Latin) vernation, leafing, the growth of new leaves in spring
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “vernatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “vernatio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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