vernalis

Latin

Etymology

By surface analysis, vernus +‎ -ālis. Perhaps formed earlier as Old Latin *vesnālis, from Proto-Italic *wezor (“spring”) (oblique stem *wezn-) +‎ *-ālis. However, the expected outcome of *vesnālis would be *vēnālis, but the actual outcome shows assimilation to vēr.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [weːrˈnaː.lɪs], [wɛrˈnaː.lɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [verˈnaː.lis]

Adjective

vē̆rnālis (neuter vē̆rnāle); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. (relational) spring (the season); vernal

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	vē̆rnālis	vē̆rnāle		vē̆rnālēs	vē̆rnālia
genitive	vē̆rnālis			vē̆rnālium
dative	vē̆rnālī			vē̆rnālibus
accusative	vē̆rnālem	vē̆rnāle		vē̆rnālīs vē̆rnālēs	vē̆rnālia
ablative	vē̆rnālī			vē̆rnālibus
vocative	vē̆rnālis	vē̆rnāle		vē̆rnālēs	vē̆rnālia

Related terms

• vēr
• vē̆rnō
• vē̆rnus

Descendants

• → Catalan: vernal
• → English: vernal
• → Italian: vernale
• → Portuguese: vernal
• → Spanish: vernal

References

• “vernalis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "vernalis", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, 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.