vernare

• IPA^(key): /verˈna.re/
• Rhymes: -are
• Hyphenation: ver‧nà‧re

Borrowed from Latin vernāre (“to be verdant; to be lively”).

vernàre (first-person singular present vèrno, first-person singular past historic vernài, past participle vernàto, auxiliary avére) (archaic, intransitive)

1. to bring spring, to be vernal
   • early 14^th century, Dante, “Canto XXX”, in Paradiso, lines 124–126:

     Nel giallo de la rosa sempiterna,
     che si digrada e dilata e redole
     odor di lode al sol che sempre verna

     Into the yellow of the Rose Eternal that spreads, and multiplies, and breathes an odour of praise unto the ever-vernal Sun

2. to sing during spring [auxiliary avere] (of birds)

• vernale

From verno (“winter”) +‎ -are (1^st conjugation verbal suffix).

vernàre (first-person singular present vèrno, first-person singular past historic vernài, past participle vernàto, auxiliary avére) (literary, intransitive)

1. to winter (to spend the winter) [auxiliary avere]

   Synonym: svernare

   • early 14^th century, Dante, “Canto XXIV”, in Purgatorio, lines 64–69:

     Come li augei che vernan lungo ’l Nilo,
     alcuna volta in aere fanno schiera,
     poi volan più a fretta e vanno in filo

     Even as the birds, that winter tow'rds the Nile, sometimes into a phalanx form themselves, then fly in greater haste, and go in file […]

2. to experience the climate of winter [auxiliary avere]
3. (impersonal, rare) to worsen (as in winter) [auxiliary avere] (of weather)

• inverno
• svernare
• verno

• vernare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana