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
   • 1316–c. 1321, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXX”, in Paradiso [Heaven]‎, lines 124–126; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎, 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     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 (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)

   Synonym: svernare

   • 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXIV”, in Purgatorio [Purgatory]‎, lines 64–69; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎, 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     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 towards the Nile,
     sometimes into a phalanx form themselves,
     then fly in greater haste, and go in file

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

• inverno
• svernare
• verno

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