vafer
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Possibly related to vabrum, but there is little evidence for this word. vafer could have been borrowed from a neighboring Italic dialect, from earlier *vaber, from Proto-Italic *wasro- (“versatile”), which could be from the root of varius (“varied”), or possibly otherwise from the root of vado (“I go, proceed”).[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈu̯a.fer/, [ˈu̯äfɛr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈva.fer/, [ˈväːfer]
Adjective[edit]
vafer (feminine vafra, neuter vafrum, adverb vafrē); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)
Declension[edit]
First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | vafer | vafra | vafrum | vafrī | vafrae | vafra | |
| Genitive | vafrī | vafrae | vafrī | vafrōrum | vafrārum | vafrōrum | |
| Dative | vafrō | vafrō | vafrīs | ||||
| Accusative | vafrum | vafram | vafrum | vafrōs | vafrās | vafra | |
| Ablative | vafrō | vafrā | vafrō | vafrīs | |||
| Vocative | vafer | vafra | vafrum | vafrī | vafrae | vafra | |
Descendants[edit]
- → Italian: vafro (learned)
References[edit]
- “vafer”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “vafer”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- vafer in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “vafer”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 650