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ver

spring

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Where it lives

Ordo Urbium Nobilium 1 · 9.56/10k
Epitaphia heroum qui bello Troico interfuerunt 1 · 8.33/10k
Technopaegnion 1 · 6.73/10k
De agri cultura 10 · 6.39/10k
Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1 · 5.88/10k
Georgicon 7 · 4.95/10k
Eumenes 1 · 4.37/10k
Eclogarum Liber 1 · 3.65/10k
de bello Gildonico 1 · 3.16/10k
Commodus Antoninus 1 · 2.89/10k
Ibis 1 · 2.54/10k
de Bello Gothico 1 · 2.48/10k

Densest 12 of 52 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. ver — de Vaan

ver 'spring' [n. r] (P1.+) Derivatives: vermis Occurring in spring' (Andr+), verculum 'a little spring' (PL), — [de Vaan, s.v. ver, p. 677]

2. vēr — Lewis & Short

vēr, vēris (n.Gr. e)/ar, h)=r, i. e. vhr,

abl. veri, Col. 10, 129),

I the spring.

I Lit., Varr. L. L. 6, § 9 Müll.; id. R. R. 1, 28, 1; Plaut. Truc. 2, 4, 2; Lucr. 5, 737; Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 10, § 27; id. Lael. 19, 70: vere novo, Verg. G. 1, 43; Hor. C. 1, 4, 1; 4, 7, 9; 4, 12, 1: primo vere, at the beginning of spring, Cato, R. R. 50; Hor. C. 3, 7, 2.—Prov.: vere prius flores, aestu numerabis aristas, Ov. Tr. 4, 1, 57.—

II Transf., the productions of spring: cum breve Cecropiae ver populantur apes, Mart. 9, 14, 2.—So esp. freq., ver sacrum, a special offering presented from the firstlings of spring, which it was customary to vow in critical circumstances: ver sacrum vovendi mos fuit Italis. Magnis enim periculis adducti vovebant, quaecumque proximo vere nata essent apud se animalia immolaturos, etc., Fest. p. 379 Müll.; cf. id. s. v. Mamertini, p. 158; id. s. v Sacrani, p. 321; Sisenn. ap. Non. 522, 17: ver sacrum vovendum, si bellatum prospere esset, etc., Liv. 22, 9, 10; cf. the votive formula, id. 22, 10, 2; so id. 33, 44, 1; 34, 44, 1 sqq. Weissenb. ad loc.; Just. 24, 4, 1.—

II Trop., the spring-time of life, youth (poet.): jucundum cum aetas florida ver ageret, Cat. 68, 16; Ov. M. 10, 85.

3. vér — Walde–Hofmann

vér, vöris n. „Frühling“ (seit Plaut., Cato, Sisenna, Varro, Cic., rom. [bes. primum ver seit Cato, vgl. Cl. vernum : primum ver, Merland Orib. 96]; vgl. EN. Ver Mart. Cap.), vernus, -a, -um, „auf den Frühling bezüglich“ seit Liv. Andr., vernum, -i n. (sc. tempus) (seit Cato [aequinoctium vernum], volkssprachl. Ersatz von ver, UE hibernum. gegenüber hiems, oben I 645), vernö, -äre „bin im Frühling, verjünge mich, … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. vér, p. 1663]

In the wild

6 of 132 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. ver (scan p. 677; entry #1948).
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. uér (scan p. 746; entry #12458).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. vér (scan p. 1663; entry #3190). Root candidates: *yé-.

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