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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=inherited|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *wésr̥}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈweːr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈvɛr]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''vēr''' ''n'' (genitive vēris); third declension^(Wiktionary)

+ Columella has the ablative ''vērī''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|itc-pro|*wesor]], [[inh|ine-pro|*wésr̥|t=spring]], a neuter with an ⟨r⟩/⟨n⟩ stem.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) Cognate with [[grc|ἔαρ|tr=éar|t=spring]], [[non|vár|t=spring]], [[lt|vasara|t=summer]] and [[cu|весна|tr=vesna|t=spring]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012) De Vaan explains the Latin form from an old paradigm ⟨*wesr̥⟩, genitive ⟨*wesnos⟩, which would have given ⟨*veror⟩, ⟨*vēnos⟩: the genitive was remade as ⟨vēris⟩, and its long ⟨ē⟩ spread to the nominative.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan gives Plautus as its first author.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) Cato says some farm work should be done ''per vēr'', “in spring”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is the season of spring, and figuratively the springtime of life, youth, as Catullus' flowering age that was spending its spring.^(OLD 2012) ''Vēr sacrum'', the “sacred spring”, was an old Italian vow made in times of disaster to sacrifice to a god everything born in the following spring, Sisenna tells of the Sabines who vowed one.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “spring”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato of farm work in spring.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 120–67 BC – Sisenna of a ''vēr sacrum''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81/79–52/50 BC – Catullus of the spring of life.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|spring|alt=Spring]] (the season).^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(figuratively)'' The springtime of life, [[m|en|youth]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''vēr sacrum'': a vow to sacrifice everything born in the coming spring.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[vernus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}