vernalis
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Latin *vesnālis, from Proto-Italic *wezor (“spring”) (oblique stem *wezn-) + -ālis. (The expected outcome of *vesnālis would be vēnālis, but the actual outcome shows assimilation to vēr.)
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /u̯eːrˈnaː.lis/, [u̯eːrˈnäːlʲɪs̠] or IPA(key): /u̯erˈnaː.lis/, [u̯ɛrˈnäːlʲɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /verˈna.lis/, [verˈnäːlis]
Adjective[edit]
vē̆rnālis (neuter vē̆rnāle); third-declension two-termination adjective
- (relational) spring (the season); vernal
Declension[edit]
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
| Nominative | vē̆rnālis | vē̆rnāle | vē̆rnālēs | vē̆rnālia | |
| Genitive | vē̆rnālis | vē̆rnālium | |||
| Dative | vē̆rnālī | vē̆rnālibus | |||
| Accusative | vē̆rnālem | vē̆rnāle | vē̆rnālēs vē̆rnālīs |
vē̆rnālia | |
| Ablative | vē̆rnālī | vē̆rnālibus | |||
| Vocative | vē̆rnālis | vē̆rnāle | vē̆rnālēs | vē̆rnālia | |
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “vernalis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- vernalis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- vernalis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.