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Latin
Etymology
Possibly related to vabrum, but there is little evidence for this word. vafer could have been borrowed from a neighboring Italic dialect, from earlier *vaber, from Proto-Italic *wasro- (“versatile”), which could be from the root of varius (“varied”), or possibly otherwise from the root of vado (“I go, proceed”).[1]
Pronunciation
Adjective
vafer (feminine vafra, neuter vafrum, adverb vafrē); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)
- sly, cunning, crafty, artful, subtle
- Synonyms: callidus, cōnsultus
- Antonyms: ineptus, rudis, iners, incapāx
Declension
First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).
Descendants
- → Italian: vafro (learned)
References
- “vafer”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “vafer”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- vafer in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “vafer”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 650