The corpus record — Latin

verno

in spring5 (Cato+); ver sacrum

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Where it lives

Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 3.83/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 1 · 1.32/10k
Hercules Oetaeus 1 · 0.89/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Apologia 1 · 0.47/10k
Tristia 1 · 0.44/10k
Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1 · 0.38/10k
Epigrammata 2 · 0.36/10k
Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.23/10k
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 1 · 0.14/10k

Densest 12 of 14 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. verno — de Vaan

verno 'in spring5 (Cato+); ver sacrum 'sacrifice of all living beings born in the spring of a certain year5 (Sis.+). Pit. *wes-or [nom.acc], *wes-n- [gen.], PIE *ues-r/n- [n.j 'spring'. IE cognates: Skt. vasanta-, Av. varjri [loc.sg.], Gr. tap [n„] 'spring', ειαρινός 'belonging to spring', Arm. garown 'spring', Lith. vasara, — [de Vaan, s.v. verno, p. 677]

2. verno — Lewis & Short

verno, āre, v. n.ver,

I to appear like spring, to flourish, be verdant; to spring, bloom, grow young, renew itself, etc. (poet. and in post-Aug. prose; syn. vireo).

I Lit.: humus, Ov. M. 7, 284: arbores fruticesque, Plin. 22, 22, 46, § 95: caelum, id. 7, 2, 2, § 26: caelum bis floribus, Flor. 1, 16, 3: in Italiā aër semper quodammodo vernat vel auctumnat, Plin. 2, 50, 51, § 136: silva vernat, Sen. Herc. Oet. 380: vernantia lilia, blooming, Col. 10, 270: avis, i. e. begins to sing, Ov. Tr. 3, 12, 8; cf. apes, Col. 9, 9, 1; hence also: ager arguto passere, becomes enlivened again, resounds anew, Mart. 9, 55, 8: anguis, i. e. sheds its skin, Plin. 8, 27, 41, § 99.—

II Transf.: cum tibi vernarent dubiā lanugine malae, get the first down, Mart. 2, 61, 1: dum vernat sanguis, is young or lively, Prop. 4 (5), 5, 57. senio vernante, Claud. Laud. Stil. 1, 316.

In the wild

uernant Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 3.29.p6
uernent Apuleius, Apologia 9
vernat Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 128.1
vernat Martial, Epigrammata 9.54.8
vernantes Prudentius, Psychomachia 1.355
vernantes Seneca, Hercules Oetaeus 1

6 of 18 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. verno (scan p. 677; entry #1949).

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