Where does “primaverar” come from?
primaverar (Portuguese) comes from Portuguese primavera, from Vulgar Latin primavera, from Latin prima, from Latin primus, from Latin prismos, from Latin prisemos, from Proto-Italic priisemos, from Proto-Indo-European per- — passed , crossed.
primaverar (Portuguese): to spring
Definitions
- to spring
Ancestry of “primaverar”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Portuguese | primavera | spring, the season |
| 2 | Vulgar Latin | primavera | spring |
| 3 | Latin | prima | nominative feminine singular of prīmus; vocative... |
| 4 | Latin | primus | first |
| 5 | Latin | prismos | — |
| 6 | Latin | prisemos | — |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | priisemos | foremost, first |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | per- | before, in front; first; to go through |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | pr̥tós | passed , crossed |