primavera

From Italian primavera (“springtime”).

primavera (not comparable)

1. Describing a light vegetable sauce, especially one served with pasta.

From Spanish primavera (“springtime”).

primavera (countable and uncountable, plural primaveras)

1. (countable) Any of species Roseodendron donnell-smithii, of Central America.
2. (uncountable) Wood of trees of this species, white mahogany.

• primavera at OneLook Dictionary Search

From Late Latin prīma vēra, from Latin prīmus (“first”) + vēr (“spring”).

primavera f (plural primaveres)

1. spring (season)

Inherited from Late Latin prīma vēra, derived from Latin prīmus (“first”) + vēr (“spring”).

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /pɾi.məˈve.ɾə/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /pɾi.məˈbe.ɾə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /pɾi.maˈve.ɾa/

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primavera f (plural primaveres)

1. spring (season)
2. primrose

   Synonym: prímula

• primaveira (Valverdeñu)

From Old Galician-Portuguese primavera (“early spring”), from Late Latin prīma vēra.

• IPA^(key): /pɾimaˈbeɾa/

primavera f (plural primaveras)

1. (Lagarteiru, Mañegu) spring

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu [Fala Dictionary]‎, CIDLeS, →ISBN, page 233

From Old Galician-Portuguese primavera (“early spring”), from Late Latin prīma vēra, from Latin prīmus (“first”) + vēr (“spring”).

primavera f (plural primaveras)

1. spring (season)

primavera (plural primaveras)

1. spring (season)

Inherited from Late Latin prīma vēra (“early spring”), derived from vēr (“spring”). Compare Spanish primavera, French primevère.

• IPA^(key): /pri.maˈvɛ.ra/

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• Rhymes: -ɛra
• Hyphenation: pri‧ma‧vè‧ra

primavera f (plural primavere)

1. spring (season)
2. (in the plural, informal) years, winters

   Synonyms: anno, anni

3. primrose

   Synonym: primula

• primaverile

• vernale

From Late Latin prīma vēra, from Latin prīmus (“first”) + vēr (“spring”). Cf. Old Galician-Portuguese primavera.

primavera

1. beginning of spring
   • c. 1380 – 1385, Ferrer Saiol, Libro de Palladio 198r, (ed. by Pedro Sánchez-Prieto Borja, 2004, publisher: Universidad de Alcalá de Henares):

     E como las avras asy prouadas en la primavera podras las sembrar

     And once you have examined them [the chestnuts], you'll be able to sow them by the beginning of spring

• verano ("spring")

• primavera

From Old Galician-Portuguese primavera (“early spring”), from Late Latin prīma vēra, from Latin prīmus (“first”) + vēr (“spring”). Compare Italian and Spanish primavera, Romanian primăvară.

• Hyphenation: pri‧ma‧ve‧ra

primavera f (plural primaveras)

1. spring (the season)

• primaveral
• primaveril

• vernal
• vernante

Ultimately from Late Latin prīma vēra (“early spring”), perhaps borrowed from Italian or Neapolitan, considering the stressed vowel outcome (Latin /ē/ yields /i/ in native Sicilian words). Cognates include Spanish primavera and Romanian primăvară.

primavera f

1. spring

From Old Spanish primavera, from Late Latin prīma vēra, from Latin prīmus (“first”) + vēr (“spring”). Compare Italian primavera and Romanian primăvară.

• IPA^(key): /pɾimaˈbeɾa/ [pɾi.maˈβ̞e.ɾa]

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• Rhymes: -eɾa
• Syllabification: pri‧ma‧ve‧ra

primavera f (plural primaveras)

1. spring (season)
2. year of age

   Mi primo tiene cuarenta primaveras

   My cousin's forty [years old].

   Synonyms: año, taco

3. primrose

primavera m or f (plural primaveras)

1. simple soul; simple creature; simple sod

primavera f (plural primaveras)

1. (Mexico) American robin, Turdus migratorius

• vernal

• “primavera”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014