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Vernal

//ˈvɜːn(ə)l// adj, name

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Pertaining to or occurring in spring. formal, literary

    "For as a vernall Larke, but lately drest / In her first Downe, abandoning her nest, / Stretchest her pinions, her small force assayes / Flutters, and fals before her flight shee raise, [...]"

  2. 2
    Having characteristics like spring; fresh, young, youthful. figuratively, formal, literary

    "When after the long vernal day of life, / Enamour'd more, as more remembrance ſwells / With many a proof of recollected love, / Together down they [the seasons] ſink in ſocial ſleep; [...]"

Adjective
  1. 1
    of or characteristic of or occurring in spring wordnet
  2. 2
    suggestive of youth; vigorous and fresh wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A city, the county seat of Uintah County, Utah, United States.

Etymology

PIE word *wósr̥ From Latin vernālis (“(rare) of or pertaining to spring; vernal”), from vērnus (“of or pertaining to spring; vernal”) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives of relationship). Vērnus is derived from vēr (“season of spring”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wósr̥ (“spring”)) + -nus (suffix forming adjectives). The English word is cognate with Old French vernal (modern French vernal), Italian vernale (“pertaining to spring; vernal”), Occitan vernal, Portuguese vernal (“pertaining to spring; vernal”), Spanish vernal (“pertaining to spring; vernal”). Compare typologically German Frühling (< früh), Slovene pomlȃd (< mlȃd).

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