Reconstruction:Latin/vera
Latin
editEtymology
editFrom Latin vēra, plural of vēr (“spring”), reinterpreted as a feminine singular noun. In the Balkans its meaning shifted to 'summer' because the derivatives of Late Latin prīma vēra (originally 'early spring') had taken over the general sense of 'spring'. Cf. the similar semantic chain-shift in Ibero-Romance derivatives of *vērānum.
Pronunciation
editNoun
edit*vēra f (Proto-Romance)
- (Proto-Balkan-Romance) summer
- (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance) spring?
- Synonym: *vērānum
Descendants
edit- Balkan Romance:
- Italo-Western Romance:
References
edit- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “ver”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 14: U–Z, page 272