vernatio

Latin

Etymology

From vernāre (“to be verdant, to flourish”) +‎ -tiō (“-tion: forming abstract nouns”), from vernus (“springlike”) + -āre (“forming verbs”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wósr̥.

Noun

vernātiō f (genitive vernātiōnis); third declension

1. sloughing, the shedding of old skin by snakes
2. slough, the skin thus shed by snakes
3. (New Latin) vernation, leafing, the growth of new leaves in spring

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	vernātiō	vernātiōnēs
Genitive	vernātiōnis	vernātiōnum
Dative	vernātiōnī	vernātiōnibus
Accusative	vernātiōnem	vernātiōnēs
Ablative	vernātiōne	vernātiōnibus
Vocative	vernātiō	vernātiōnēs

Descendants

• English: vernation
• French: vernation

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.