Where does “verão” come from?
verão (Portuguese) comes from Old Portuguese verão, from Vulgar Latin veranum, from Latin vēr, from Latin veror, from Proto-Italic wezor, from Proto-Indo-European wósr̥ — spring.
verão (Portuguese): summer
Ancestry of “verão”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Old Portuguese | verão | spring, or spring and the early part of the... |
| 2 | Vulgar Latin | veranum | summer |
| 3 | Latin | vēr | — |
| 4 | Latin | veror | — |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | wezor | spring |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | wósr̥ | spring |
Words derived from “verão”